The Ill-Matched Couple

Series TitleScenes of Daily Life

Former TitleThe Knight and his Lady

Artist Israhel van Meckenem (German, 1445 - 1503)

Date15th century

MediumEngraving

DimensionsPlate: 6 3/8 × 4 3/8 inches (16.19 × 11.11 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number34-194

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Exhibition History

[No known exhibitions at this time]

Provenance

With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, by April 21, 1934;

Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.

Published References

Adam Bartsch, Le Peintre-graveur, vol. 6 (Leipzig: J.A. Barth, 1866), no. 171, pp. 265, 267, as Sujets profanes: Homme et femme en habits de voyage.

Max Geisberg, Der deutsche Einblatt-Holzschnitt in der ersten Hälfte des XVI. Jahrhunderts, 43 vols. (Munich: Schmidt, 1923-1930), no. 404.

Max Lehrs, Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederländischen und französischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert, vol. 9, Israhel von Meckenem (Vienna: Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst, 1934), no. 502, pp. 392, 507.

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Hollstein, German Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts Ca. 1400-1700, vol. 24, Israhel van Meckenem (Amsterdam: Van Gendt, 1980), no. 502.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 14, 301, as From Scenes of Daily Life: The Ill-Assorted Couple.

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