The Nativity and Passion of Christ, 1511

Not on View

Medium

woodcut printed from fifteen blocks on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 43.5 × 58.7 cm (17 1/8 × 23 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 27-41, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.8127

Artists / Makers

Wolf Traut (artist) German, c. 1486 - 1520

Image Use

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Inscription

on banderole at left, in block: Nos miseri exules e peregrini in hoc seculo; on banderole at right, in block: Q' diu in hac vita sumus peregrinamur a dno; printed in letterpress at bottom of broadsheet: [a prayer beginning: O her iesv criste...]; verso, upper center, in graphite by a later hand: N [illegible]; upper right, in graphite by a later hand:[struckthrough in graphite: No. 214]; lower left, in graphite by a later hand: AD; bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: Wolf Traut 1511 / Pass. 265 D.I.515 No.8

Provenance

purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1953: Nuremberg and the German World, Los Angeles County Museum, 1953-1954, no cat.

1954: De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, and University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, 1954, no cat.

1954: Early German Prints, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 1954, no cat.

1955: J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, 1955, no cat.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein's German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. Vol. XCIV (Wolf Traut, Dieter Beaujean, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2019, nos. 27-41, state only.