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Martin Schongauer

Death of the Virgin, c. 1470/1475

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series Title

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

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 25.7 × 17 cm (10 1/8 × 6 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 16, State i/ii

Accession Number

1941.1.54

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 left, by later hand, in graphite: Lu.N.N.[?] / B.33; on verso at bottom left, by later hand, in graphite: B-54 [upside down];on verso at bottom center, by later hand, in graphite: 376

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

W.G. Russell Allen [1882-1955], Boston; gift to NGA, 1941.

Associated Names

Allen, W.G. Russell, Mr.

Exhibition History

1964: Prints by Altdorfer, Dürer, Lucas van Leyden, and Schongauer from the National Gallery of Art Collection, Washington, D.C., 1964-1965, no cat.

1966: Master Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966-1967, no catalogue.

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1997, 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 Dallas).

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.16.