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Martin Schongauer

Saint Sebastian, c. 1480/1490

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 15.7 x 11.3 cm (6 3/16 x 4 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 65, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.65

Artists / Makers

Martin Schongauer (artist) German, c. 1450 - 1491

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Provenance

Gerhard Güttler [1889-1966], Berlin (Lugt 2807b); Clendenin J. Ryan, Sr. [1881-1939], New York; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1940, no. 17); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Güttler, Gerhard
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Ryan, Clendenin J.

Exhibition History

1941: The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 90.

1945: Postcard Prints of the National Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1945-1946, no catalogue.

1947: National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C., 1947.

1953: Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: Prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953, no catalogue.

1955: Miniatures and Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955, no catalogue.

1956: Prints, 1400-1800, only Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, 1956, not in catalogue.

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 82, repro.

1973: Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 24.

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2018: The Renaissance Nude, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2018-2019.

Bibliography

1908: Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.

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

1967: Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 82.

1996: Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 55, 57; fig.1.40, 58.