The Adoration of the Shepherds, probably 1530/1540

Not on View

Medium

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

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.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

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

Accession Number

1991.98.1

Artists / Makers

Master of the Adoration of the Shepherds (artist) German, active c. 1520/1540

Image Use

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Inscription

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]

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