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German 15th Century or Attributed to Master of the Housebook

The Virgin in the Clouds, c. 1470/1480

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Medium

woodcut, hand-colored in blue, red, orange, and gold

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 998

Accession Number

1943.3.9103

Artists / Makers

Master of the Housebook (artist) German, active c. 1470 - 1500

German 15th Century (artist)

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Provenance

Purchased 18 June 1929 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 152, repro.

Bibliography

1926: Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.

1965: Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965.

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