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Martin Schongauer

The Flight into Egypt, c. 1470/1475

Not on View

series Title

Life of the Virgin [Lehrs 5-7, 16]

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to platemark): 25.7 x 16.9 cm (10 1/8 x 6 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 7, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.31

Artists / Makers

Martin Schongauer (artist) German, c. 1450 - 1491

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center, in plate: M + S [artist's monogram]; on verso at bottom, in later hand, in graphite: B7

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Zinser, Richard H.

Exhibition History

1953: Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: Prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953, no catalogue.

1955: Miniatures and Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955, no catalogue.

1958: Christmas Prints (gift of W.G. Russell Allen and from the Rosenwald Collection), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1958-1959, no catalogue.

1960: Gothic to Baroque, Allentown Art Museum, 1960, no. 79.

1964: Christmas Card Subjects from the Graphic Arts Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1964-1965, no catalogue.

1965: Christmas Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965-1966, no catalogue.

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 40, repro.

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

1971: Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 18, repro.

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1997, no catalogue.

2007: Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450 - 1700, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007, no catalogue.

2019: Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 2019-2021 (shown only in Washington).

Bibliography

1908: Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, no.7

1967: Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 40.