Past Exhibition

An Exhibition of Christmas Card Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art

The image shows two people standing next to each other in an embrace. One person has long, wavy, blonde hair and wears a blue robe over a pink dress, while the other person wears a head covering and a red robe over a yellow garment. Both figures have serene facial features with halos above their heads. The background includes green hills, a path, and a distant castle with a red roof under a blue sky with cloud-like streaks. The scene is framed in red.
German 15th Century, The Visitation, c. 1480/1490, woodcut in dark brown, hand-colored in red, yellow, green, lt. blue, pink, blue, gold, orange, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.824

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    Ground Floor, Cafeteria Corridor
The image shows two people standing next to each other in an embrace. One person has long, wavy, blonde hair and wears a blue robe over a pink dress, while the other person wears a head covering and a red robe over a yellow garment. Both figures have serene facial features with halos above their heads. The background includes green hills, a path, and a distant castle with a red roof under a blue sky with cloud-like streaks. The scene is framed in red.
German 15th Century, The Visitation, c. 1480/1490, woodcut in dark brown, hand-colored in red, yellow, green, lt. blue, pink, blue, gold, orange, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.824

Overview: The prints and drawings in this exhibition ranged from 15th-century works, by such artists as Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt van Rijn, to modern works by Georges Rouault and Lyonel Feininger. Each original drawing or print was displayed with the Christmas card on which it was reproduced.

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