Wild Man Holding a Shield with a Greyhound

c. 1480/1490

Martin Schongauer

Artist, German, c. 1450 - 1491

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1943.3.85

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 102, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler [1770-1846], Berlin (Lugt 2529); Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (Lugt 1606, Lugt 234); (Knoedler and Co., New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 98.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 96, repro.

1968

  • Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, 1968-1969, no catalogue.

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 Hertzberger

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. 96.

1994

  • Bartra, Roger. Wild Men in the Looking Glass: The Mythic Origins of European Otherness, Ann Arbor, MI, 1994.

Wikidata ID

Q64960303

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