Madonna and Child in a Glory Standing on a Crescent Moon, c. 1470

Not on View

Medium

woodcut in dark brown, hand-colored in rose, green, yellow, blue, brown, gold, and orange

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 1095

Accession Number

1943.3.808

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Anton W.M. Mensing [1866-1936]; (sale, Sotheby's, December 18, 1936, no. 228); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760b and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Mensing, Anton W.M.
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 166, 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.