Saint James the Less, c. 1470/1480

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series Title

Series of the Twelve Apostles [Lehrs 269-279]

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 15.7 × 9.1 cm (6 3/16 × 3 9/16 in.)

sheet: 29.4 × 20.3 cm (11 9/16 × 8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.236, no. 273, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.123

Artists / Makers

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

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

Image Use

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Inscription

at top, in plate: S. Jaco bus. minor.; verso, lower left, in graphite by later hand: a74004

Provenance

Trivulzio Collection, Milan [1]; (purchased by P. & D. Colnaghi Co., London, 1929); (Kennedy and Co., New York, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

[1] This is one of ten prints in a series of the Twelve Apostles by Israhel van Meckenem that was found bound into the Codex Trivulziana, a medieval prayer book in the Trivulzio Library, Milan. The codex was sold to P. & D. Colnaghi in 1929 and the engravings were subsequently removed.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Trivulzio collection

Exhibition History

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 167, repro.

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. 167.