Hester, Judith and Jael, 1516

Not on View

series Title

Heroes and Heroines

Medium

woodcut

Dimensions

image: 19 x 13.1 cm (7 1/2 x 5 3/16 in.)

sheet: 21 x 13.8 cm (8 1/4 x 5 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 250

Accession Number

1944.8.51

Artists / Makers

Hans Burgkmair I (artist) German, 1473 - 1531

Image Use

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Provenance

Count Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg [1805-1865], Klein-Oels, Silésie (Lugt 2669), and by descent to his heirs; (sale 176, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 2-3 May 1932, no. 308); Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1944.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Wartenburg, Yorck von, Count

Exhibition History

1990: Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 1, repro.

2012: Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 43.

Bibliography

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

1990: Russell 1990, cat.no.1.