The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara
Master E.S.
c. 1450
Medium
engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 13.8 x 10.4 cm (5 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.) overall: 13.9 x 10.5 cm (5 1/2 x 4 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
New Century Fund
Accession Number
1999.27.2
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, ...