Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene

Provenance

Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] purchased 19 August 1939 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760c and L1932d); 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).

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene

French 15th Century

c. 1500

Accession Number

1943.3.497

Medium

woodcut, hand-colored in maroon, orange, yellow, blue-green, mauve, and flesh on laid paper, possibly applied with stencils

Dimensions

sheet: 22.2 × 14.7 cm (8 3/4 × 5 13/16 in.)

Classification

Print

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection