The Virgin Crowned by Two Angels, c. 1500

Not on View

Medium

white line woodcut

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 2869

Accession Number

1953.6.254

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Heinrich Füssli [1755-1829], Zurich (L1008); Richard von Passavant-Gontard, Frankfurt; (his sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 10 May 1929, no. 36); (Charles Sessler [1854-1935], Philadelphia); purchased 1929 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760b); gift to NGA, 1953.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Füssli, Heinrich
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Sessler, Charles
von Passavant-Gontard, Richard

Exhibition History

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 290, repro.

Bibliography

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

1965: Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965.