Christ as Salvator Mundi, c. 1485

Not on View

Medium

hand-colored woodcut

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 835, State c

Accession Number

1943.3.529

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Dr. Julius Hofmann [1840-1913], Vienna (L1264); Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] purchased 19 August 1939 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760c and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

[1] For more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Recollections of a Collector, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

Associated Names

Aufhäuser, Martin
Hofmann, Julius, Dr.
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1960: Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1960, no cat.

1968: Good and Bad Angels, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, IN, 1968, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1926: Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.