The Adoration of the Shepherds

probably 1530/1540

Master of the Adoration of the Shepherds

Artist, German, active c. 1520/1540

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut printed from two blocks on two sheets (joined) of laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 32.8 x 51.7 cm (12 15/16 x 20 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 34.1 x 52.2 cm (13 7/16 x 20 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.98.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 8, State i/ii (as Jacob Lucius the Elder)

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1992

  • Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 6.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

Inscriptions

on the fountain, center right in plate: WS [Stuber or Monogrammist WS]; lower left stamped in black: LVC [Lucas Cranach?]; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Lucas Cranach / [undeciphered]

Watermarks

Horn (left sheet) and "P" (right sheet)

Wikidata ID

Q74891080

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