Woman with the Owl, 1500

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 16 × 12.2 cm (6 5/16 × 4 13/16 in.)

sheet: 16.4 × 12.6 cm (6 7/16 × 4 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. 8, p.371, no. 19, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.185

Artists / Makers

Master MZ (artist) German, active c. 1500

Image Use

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Provenance

Friedrich August II, King of Saxony [1797-1854], Dresden (Lugt 971); (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Friedrich August II, King of Saxony
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1954: Early German Prints, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 1954.

1955: Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, 1955.

1958: The Fantastic, the Occult, and the Bizarre in Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1958, no catalogue.

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 148, 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.

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. 148.