The Organ Player and His Wife

Artist Israhel van Meckenem (German, 1445 - 1503)

Daten.d.

MediumEngraving

DimensionsPlate: 6 1/2 × 4 5/16 inches (16.51 × 10.95 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number35-44/7

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Exhibition History

Exhibition, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, May 1-4, 1959, no cat.

Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of the Renaissance, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, March 19-26, 1961, no cat.

Provenance

With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, by May 15, 1935;

Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.

Published References

Adam Bartsch, Le Peintre-graveur, vol. 6 (Leipzig: J.A. Barth, 1866), no. 175, pp. 265, 269, as Sujets profanes: Le joueur d’orgues.

Max Geisberg, Der deutsche Einblatt-Holzschnitt in der ersten Hälfte des XVI. Jahrhunderts, 43 vols. (Munich: Schmidt, 1923-1930), no. 409.

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. 397.

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Hollstein, German Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts Ca. 1400-1700, vol. 24, Israhel van Meckenem (Amsterdam: Van Gendt, 1980), no. 507 III/III.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 14, 301, as The Organ Player and His Wife.

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