The Madonna and Child in a Garden
Master E.S.
c. 1465/1467
Medium
engraving in white on laid paper prepared with black ink
Dimensions
plate (diameter): 10.6 cm (4 3/16 in.) sheet (diameter): 10.8 cm (4 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
New Century Fund
Accession Number
1999.27.1
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, ...