The Birth of the Virgin, c. 1490/1500

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series Title

The Life of the Virgin [Lehrs 50-61]

Medium

engraving

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 26.7 × 18.3 cm (10 1/2 × 7 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.054, no. 51, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.106

Artists / Makers

Israhel van Meckenem (artist) German, c. 1445 - 1503

Hans Holbein the Elder (artist after) German, c. 1465 - 1524

Image Use

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Provenance

William Esdaile [1758-1837], London (Lugt 2617); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Esdaile, William
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1949: Ten Centuries of Christian Art, Milwaukee Art Institute, WI, 1949, no catalogue.

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.

1958: Life of Christ, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, 1958-1959, no catalogue.

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 217, repro.

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. 217.