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Niklaus Manuel I

Foolish Virgin, 1518

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series Title

The Wise and Foolish Virgins

Medium

woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions

block: 19.2 × 10.6 cm (7 9/16 × 4 3/16 in.)

sheet: 21.7 × 12.5 cm (8 9/16 × 4 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 8, State i/ii

Accession Number

1948.11.59

Artists / Makers

Niklaus Manuel I (artist) Swiss, c. 1484 - 1530

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Inscription

lower left, in block: N[in reverse]MD / VON BERNN

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1950: Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 36.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1996: The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Niklaus Manuel Deutsch and Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch, Guido Messling, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2016; Part I, no. 8, i/ii.

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