The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, c. 1450

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 13.8 x 10.4 cm (5 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
overall: 13.9 x 10.5 cm (5 1/2 x 4 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

New Century Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. 2, p.232, no. 162

Accession Number

1999.27.2

Artists / Makers

Master E.S. (artist) German, active c. 1450 - active 1467

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .

Provenance

Ernst Peter Otto [1724-1799], Leipzig; (sale, R. Weigel, September 29, 1851, no. 3); Friedrich August II, King of Saxony [1797-1854], Dresden (Lugt 971); (P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 17 April 1950); (Richard Zinser, April 1950); (sale, Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, June 7, 1961, no. 150); (N. G. Stogdon, New York, 1999); purchased by NGA , 1999.

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Friedrich August II, King of Saxony
Galerie Kornfeld
Otto, Ernst Peter
Stogdon, N.G.
Weigel, Rudolph
Zinser, Richard H.

Exhibition History

1956: Prints, 1400 - 1800, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1956 - 1957, cat. no. 22, pl. 3.

Bibliography

1908: Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und Kritischer Katalog des Deutschen Niederländischen, und Französischen Kupferstichs im 15.Jahrhunderts. Vienna, 1910: 2:233.

1998: Stogdon, Nicholas. Early Northern Engravings: Catalogue XI. England, 1998: no. 3.