The Death of the Virgin, c. 1390

Not on View

Medium

silverpoint on blue-green prepared paper

Dimensions

overall: 29.1 x 40 cm (11 7/16 x 15 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1950.20.2

Artists / Makers

Netherlandish 14th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna (Lugt 4398); purchased 20 April 1948 through (Walter Felichenfeldt, Zurich) by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA;[1] gift to NGA in 1950.

[1] Rosenwald describes the acquisitions from Liechtenstein in Recollections of a Collector, 1976, p. 46-47.

Associated Names

Feilchenfeldt, Walter M.
Liechtenstein, Princes of
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1948: Seventy Master Drawings, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1948-1949, no. 2.

1950: Masterpieces of Drawing: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-1951, no. 5, repro.

1950: Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 15, repro.

1977: Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 64.

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 18.

1982: Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 46, repro.

2015: Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The British Museum, London, 2015, no. 2.

2017: Johan Maelwael: Nijmegen-Paris-Dijon, Art Around 1400, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2017, no. 8, repro.

Bibliography

1982: Fine, Ruth E. Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982, no. 46.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 658, no. 1034, color repro.

1996: Enstice, Wayne and Melody Peters. Drawing: Space, Form, and Dimension. New Jersey, 1996: 33, fig. 1.23.

2005: Dückers, Rob, Pieter Roelofs. The Limbourg Brothers; Nijmegen Masters at the French Court, 1400-1416. Antwerp, 2005:345, no. 86

2016: National Gallery of Art. Highlights from the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 2016: 39, repro.