Madonna and Child Seated on a Grassy Bank with Angels, 1480/1490

Not on View

Medium

woodcut in dark brown, hand-colored in light red lake, dark blue, green, brown, gold, and orange

Dimensions

image: 8.9 x 5.9 cm (3 1/2 x 2 5/16 in.)

sheet: 11 x 7.9 cm (4 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 1123

Accession Number

1943.3.563

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Theodor Oswald Weigel [1812-1881], Leipzig; Baron Adalbert von Lanna [1836-1909], Prague, Bohemia (Lugt 2773); Albertina, Vienna; (Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Cat. 20 (1929) no.7); purchased 1 February 1930 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760b and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Albertina
Lanna, Adalbert von, Baron
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Weigel, Theodor Oswald

Exhibition History

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 168, 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. 168.