Martin Schongauer

Martin Schongauer

circa 1445 - 1491

The Death of the Virgin (Bartsch 33; Lehrs, Hollstein 16)

Engraving, circa 1470-74, a good impression of Lehrs’ third (final) state (Hollstein’s state IIa), with the horizontal scratch across the right foot of the kneeling St. Philip at lower left, printing more faintly at the upper left, on laid paper with a partially visible Gothic P watermark, framed

sheet: 256 by 172mm 10 by 6 ¾in