The Juggler and the Woman

c. 1495/1503

Israhel van Meckenem

Artist, German, c. 1445 - 1503

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1943.3.159

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.393, no. 503, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alfred Morrison [1821-1897], London and Fonthill (Lugt 151); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1946

  • Music in Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no catalogue.

1953

  • Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: Prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953, no catalogue.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 237, repro.

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century German Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1967, no catalogue.

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 124, repro.

1997

  • Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-1999.

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. 237.

1990

  • Russell 1990, no. 123.

1994

  • Landau, David and Peter Parshall. The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550 New Haven and London, 1994: fig. 38.

Watermarks

shield with three fleurs-de-lis, crowned with flowers (Lehrs 41; Briquet 1742)

Wikidata ID

Q64958433

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