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Israhel van Meckenem

Double Portrait of Israhel van Meckenem and His Wife Ida, c. 1490

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 13 x 17.5 cm (5 1/8 x 6 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.001, no. 1, State i/iii

Accession Number

1943.3.99

Artists / Makers

Israhel van Meckenem (artist) German, c. 1445 - 1503

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Inscription

bottom margin, at left, in plate: Figuratio facierum Israhelis et Ide eius uxoris (The portrait of Israhel and Ida his wife) [translation from Alan Shestack, "Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe." Exh. catalogue, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1967, no. 244.]; bottom margin, at right, in plate: I.V.M [artist's monogram]

Provenance

Richard von Passavant-Gontard [1852-1923], Frankfurt; (his sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 10 May 1929, no. 705); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
von Passavant-Gontard, Richard

Exhibition History

1931: Five Centuries of Print Making, The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1931, no. 4, repro.

1941: The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 112.

1945: Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 10.

1953: Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no catalogue.

1953: Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: Prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953, no catalogue.

1953: Renaissance Portraits, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1953, no cat.

1954: Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, no catalogue.

1965: Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond; and Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1965, no. 25.

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 244, 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. 32, repro.

1979: Self-Portraits: Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979.

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. 244.

1993: Spangenberg, Kristin L. ed. Six Centuries of Master Prints. Cincinnati, 1993: fig. 20-1.

1995: Luchs, Alison. Tullio Lombardo and Ideal Portrait Sculpture in Renaissance Venice, 1490-1530. Cambridge, England, and New York, 1995: 62, 63, 77, 252, fig. 82.

1996: Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, fig.1.43, 61.

1997: Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 42-43, color fig. 23.