The Adoration of the Magi
Master E.S.
1401 to 1500
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 14.5 x 10.1 cm (5 11/16 x 4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Print Purchase Fund (Andrew W. Mellon, Rosenwald Collection)
Accession Number
1974.50.1
About the Artist
Master E.S. · 1450–1467
Master E.S. was a pioneering German engraver active in the middle decades of the fifteenth century, known only by the monogram with which he signed a number of his prints. His precise identity — name, birthplace, and biography — remains unknown, but his signed works, along with a larger group of prints attributed to him on stylistic grounds, place his activity primarily in the Upper Rhine region, ...