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Dance Around the Golden Calf (from the Liber chronicarum)
Dance Around the Golden Calf (from the Liber chronicarum)

Dance Around the Golden Calf (from the Liber chronicarum)

Artist Michael Wolgemut (German, 1434/37 - 1519)
Date1493
MediumWoodcut
DimensionsImage: 10 1/2 × 8 13/16 inches (26.67 × 22.38 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-209/1
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

[No known exhibitions at this time]

Provenance

With E. Weyhe, Inc., New York, by January 1, 1932;

Purchased from E. Weyhe, Inc., by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

Published References

Richard Muther, Die Deutsche Bücherillustration der Gothik und Frührenaissance (1460-1530) (Munich: 1884), no. 424, pp. 58-60.


Campbell Dodgson, Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, vol. 1, German and Flemish Woodcuts of the 15 Century (London: British Museum, 1903), no. 228.


Wilhelm Ludwig Schreiber, Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, vol. 5, Contenant un catalogue des incunables à figures imprimés en Allamagne, en Suisse, en Autriche-Hongrie, et en Scandinavie, pt. 2, J-Z (Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1911), no. 5203, pp. 248-49, as Liber chronicarum.


Albert Schramm, Der Bilderschmuck der Frühdrucke, vol. 17, Die Drucker in Nürnberg (Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1934), no. 442.


George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 305, as Dance Around the Golden Calf.



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