Madonna and Child

German 15th Centuryc. 1450/1470

Details

Title: Madonna and Child
Creator: German 15th Century
Date Created: c. 1450/1470
Physical Dimensions: sheet (trimmed to oval shape): 2.7 × 2.2 cm (1 1/16 × 7/8 in.)
Provenance: Theodor Oswald Weigel [1812-1881], Leipzig; ( Ludwig Rosenthal, Munich, Cat. 90, 1892, no.135); Martin Aufhäuser [d. 1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles;[1] purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1939; 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: engraving, hand-colored in green and red

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