Holy Kinship, 1490/1500

Not on View

Medium

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

Dimensions

image: 26.5 x 38.9 cm (10 7/16 x 15 5/16 in.)

sheet: 26.7 x 39.1 cm (10 1/2 x 15 3/8 in.)
overall (exterior frame dimensions): 44.8 x 60 cm (17 5/8 x 23 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 1779, State a

Accession Number

1943.3.636

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Freidrich August II, Dreden (Lugt 971); Josef Wunsch, Vienna; Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] Lessing J. Rosenwald (L. Supp. 1760c), Jenkintown, PA; 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
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1941: The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 30.

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

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 257, repro.

1965: Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 16.

2005: Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 80, 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. 257.