Allegory of the Eucharist

German 15th Centuryc. 1470/1490

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Title: Allegory of the Eucharist
Creator: German 15th Century
Date Created: c. 1470/1490
Provenance: Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943. [1] For more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, _Recollections of a Collector_, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, and Richard S. Field, _Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts_, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).
Medium: woodcut in lt. brown, hand-colored in blue, green,orange, and gold

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