Madonna on the Crescent

c. 1470

Martin Schongauer

Artist, German, c. 1450 - 1491

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 17.2 x 10.8 cm (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.50

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 40, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

J.D. Böhm [1794-1865], Vienna; (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1954

  • Early German Prints, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 1954.

1955

  • Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, 1955.

1959

  • Graphic Art of Durer and Schongauer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1959, no catalogue.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 35, repro.

1973

  • The Apocalypse, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, 1973, no. 3, repro.

Bibliography

1908

  • Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.

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 Hertzberge

1967

  • Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 35.

Watermarks

triple mountain with cloverleaf (Lehrs 13)

Wikidata ID

Q64960237

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