The Nativity, c. 1480/1490

Not on View

Medium

engraving

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 16 x 15.3 cm (6 5/16 x 6 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 4, State only

Accession Number

1944.2.72

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Provenance

The British Museum, London (duplicate, Lugt 300 and 305); (Richard Zinser, Forest Hills); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1943; gift to NGA, 1944.

Associated Names

British Museum, The
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1960: Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1960, no cat.

1966: Masters of Etching and Engraving from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL, 1966, no. 2, repro.

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 74, repro.

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. 22.

1988: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.

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 Hertzberge

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. 74.