Saint James the Greater

c. 1465

Master of the Berlin Passion

Artist, German, active c. 1450/1470

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 8.3 × 6.6 cm (3 1/4 × 2 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.5815

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 3, p.096, no. 48, State ii/iii (according to Hajos)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Albertina, Vienna (duplicate, Lugt 5d); (sale 178, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 3 May 1932, no. 29); (Jacob Hirsch, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1938; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 55b.

1966

  • Masters of Etching and Engraving from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL, 1966, no. 1.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 21, 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.

1925

  • E.M. Hajos, "Drei Etats der Apostelfolge des Meisters der Berliner Passion," Belvedere, VIII, (Forum), 1925, pp. 8-12.

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. 21.

Inscriptions

at top, in halo, in plate: S Jacobus Maior; at top, in banderole, in plate: Qui conseptus est de spirito sancto nati ex maria virgine (Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary)

Wikidata ID

Q65023855

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