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German 15th Century

Madonna in a Closed Garden, 1450/1470

Not on View

Medium

woodcut in brown, hand-colored in red lake, yellow, green, gray, and tan

Dimensions

sheet: 19.2 x 13.6 cm (7 9/16 x 5 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 1120

Accession Number

1943.3.562

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

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Provenance

Theodor Oswald Weigel [1812-1881], Leipzig; Wilhelm Eduard Drugulin [1825 - 1879], Leipzig; K. Wunsch, Vienna; Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] purchased 19 August 1939 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760c and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

[1] For complete information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Rosenwald Papers, box 9, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

Associated Names

Aufhäuser, Martin
Drugulin, Wilhelm Eduard
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Weigel, Theodor Oswald

Exhibition History

1941: The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 14, repro.

1956: Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.

1960: Gothic to Baroque, Allentown Art Museum, 1960, no. 59, repro.

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 167, repro.

1971: Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, VA, 1971, no. 6, repro.

1971: Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Saint John's College, Santa Fe, NM, 1971, no catalogue.

1983: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.

1990: Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, NGA, 1990, no. 10, 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: no. 167.

1990: Clayton, Virginia Tuttle. Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990: 10.

1992: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, D.C., 1992: 315, repro.

1996: Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 28-29; fig.1.9, 28.