Martin Schongauer "St Christopher; walking to the left through the river, with the Christ child on his shoulders " Engraving




Here we have a rare image of Martin Schongauer "St Christopher; walking to the left through the river, with the Christ child on his shoulders " Engraving recorded in the catalogue reference Hollstein 56, Lehrs V.252.56 and Bartsch VI.141.48. Plate sign with the monogram in the center, Trimmed to the boarder, later printing.




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SCHONGAUER,MARTIN


Heilige Christophorus


11/29/05


3,309


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B48;L56


171




SCHONGAUER,MARTIN


St. Christoph


11/25/10


8,359


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B48;L56


5501




SCHONGAUER,MARTIN


St.Christophorus


11/30/93


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B48;L56


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St.Christophorus


06/25/91


9,768


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L56;B48


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Painter and engraver. One of five sons of a goldsmith, Caspar Schongauer (active 1440-81), who was a native of Augsburg and citizen of Colmar from 1445. Martin Schongauer is first documented in the matriculation register of Leipzig University, winter term 1465, as a Bavarian (Erler, ‘Leipzig’, p. 254) when he was presumably in his early teens. He is described as a 'young apprentice' in an inscription by Dürer on a Schongauer drawing of 1470 (Rupprich, i, pp. 208f., no. 58). He was much influenced by Rogier van der Weyden (q.v), after whose ‘Last Judgement’ altarpiece at Beaune in Burgundy he made a drawing of ‘Christ in Judgement’, dated 1469 by Dürer (Paris, Louvre, Cabinet des Dessins). He may also have travelled to the Netherlands during this period and possibly also to Spain and Portugal (first suggested by Flechsig, and supported by Anzelewsky and Koch). He had established a workshop in Colmar by 1471 (payments are recorded for an altarpiece for the Dominican church there, a workshop production now in the Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar).