Madonna and Child in a Glory Standing on a Crescent Moon

c. 1470

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1943.3.808

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 1095

Artwork history & notes

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

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.

Wikidata ID

Q64953411

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