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Lucas van Leyden and His Contemporaries

June 5 – August 14, 1983
West Building, Ground Floor, Graphics Galleries GS-1, GS-2, GS-3, GS-4 (2,500 sq. ft.)

Lucas van Leyden, Arthur, Charles the Great (Charlemagne), Godfry of Bouillon, 1515/1517, woodcut, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.5705

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.

Overview: 141 works were assembled jointly by Ellen S. Jacobowitz of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Stephanie L. Stepanek of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Organization: Andrew Robison and Ruth E. Fine were the coordinators at the Gallery. The installation was designed by Gaillard Ravenel and Mark Leithauser.

Attendance: 27,068

Catalog: The Prints of Lucas van Leyden and His Contemporaries, by Ellen S. Jacobowitz and Stephanie Loeb Stepanek. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1983.

Other Venues: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 14–November 20, 1983

Lucas van Leyden
Netherlandish, 1489 - 1533