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German 15th Century or Master with the Crossed Clubs

The Crucifixion, c. 1460

Not on View

Medium

hand-colored metalcut on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 17.9 x 11.7 cm (7 1/16 x 4 5/8 in.)

sheet: 18 x 11.9 cm (7 1/16 x 4 11/16 in.)
overall (external frame dimensions): 31.8 x 39.4 cm (12 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 2341

Accession Number

1943.3.5394

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Master with the Crossed Clubs (artist) German, active c. 1460

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Inscription

lower center, in plate: [crossed clubs device]

Marks and Labels

LJR (Lugt Supp. 1760c); NGA LJR (Lugt Supp. 1932d)

Provenance

Eugène Dutuit [1807-1886], Rouen; (Weiß & Co., Munich); Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1939; 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
Dutuit, Eugène
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1941: The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 42, repro.

1956: Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 342, repro.

1967: Friends Collect, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1967.

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. 3.

1982: Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1982, no. 2, repro.

2005: Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 67, 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.

1982: Fine, Ruth E. Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982, no. 2.

1996: Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 41; fig.1.27, 42.