The Three Fates: Lachesis, Atropos and Clotho, 1513

Not on View

Medium

woodcut

Dimensions

sheet and block: 22 × 15.5 cm (8 11/16 × 6 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 236

Accession Number

1943.3.904

Artists / Makers

Hans Baldung Grien (artist) German, 1484/1485 - 1545

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, in block, on plaque hanging from tree branch at upper left: · HGB [artist's monogram] · 1513; on verso, in graphite at lower right: 36

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Henry Huth [1815-1878]; by descent to his son, Alfred Henry Huth [1850-1910]; (his sale, by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 6 July 1911, no. 235); (C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 5 November 1929, no. 36); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Huth, Alfred Henry
Huth, Henry
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1958: The Fantastic, the Occult, and the Bizarre in Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1958, no catalogue.

1965: Drolleries and Demons: Six Centuries of 'Fantastic' Prints, IBM Gallery, New York, NY, 1965, no. 12 (as "The Gods of Destiny").

1990: Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 109, repro.

2019: Hans Baldung Grien, Large State Exhibition of Baden-Wurttemberg, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2019 - 2020, no. 182.

2019: Hans Baldung Grien, Large State Exhibition of Baden-Wurttemberg, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger

1990: Russell 1990, cat.no.109.