Updated 09 January 2025
Currently not on display

Currently not on display
The Ill-Matched Couple
Date | ca. 1496 |
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Materials and Techniques | engraving |
Size(cm) | 16.1 x 10.8 |
Standard ref. | Bartsch 171; Geisberg 404; Lehrs, Hollstein 502 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2008-0002 |
Provenance
Purchased by the NMWA, 2008.
Exhibition History
- 2011
- Fantastic Nature: Northern Prints before Rembrandt, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 12 March 2011 - 12 June 2011, cat. no. 36
- 2016
- Sacred and Secular: Israhel van Meckenem & Early German Engraving, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 9 July 2016 - 19 September 2016, cat. no. 44
Bibliography
- 1930
- Warburg, Anni. Israhel van Meckenem: sein Leben, sein Werk und seine Bedeutung für die Kunst des ausgehenden 15. Jahrhunderts. Bonn, K. Schroeder, 1930, pp. 67ff., Taf. 23.
- 1940
- Carrington, Fitzroy. "After a lost original": twelve scenes from daily life, engraved by Israhel van Meckenem. Print Collector's Quarterly. vol. 27, 1940, p. 326.
- 1967
- Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (exh. cat.). Shestack, Alan ed. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 3 December 1967 – 7 January 1968. Washington, National Gallery of Art, [1967], no. 236.
- 1969
- Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederländischen und französischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. vol. 7, Nendeln/ Liechtenstein, Kraus Reprint, 1969 (1st ed., Wien, 1930), p. 262.
- 1980
- Bernhard, Marianne. Martin Schongauer und sein Kreis: Druckgraphik, Handzeichnungen. München, Südwest-Verlag, 1980, p. 347.
- 1983
- From a Mighty Fortress: Prints, Drawings, and Books in the Age of Luther, 1483-1546 (exh. cat.). Andersson, Christiane; Talbot, Charles, ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 3 October - 22 November 1981; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 4 December 1981 – 31 January 1982; Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Coburg, 18 July – 5 August 1982. [Detroit], Detroit Institute of Arts, 1983, p. 320.
- 1992
- Lymant, Brigitte. Die sogenannte "Folge aus dem Alltagsleben" von Israhel van Meckenem: ein spätgotischer Kupferstichzyklus zu Liebe und Ehe. Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch. vol., 53, 1992, p. 17, no. 9.
- 2002
- Grössinger, Christa. Humour and Folly in Secular and Profane Prints of Northern Europe, 1430-1540. London, Harvey Miller, 2002, p. 75, no. 82.
- 2003
- Ketteler, Georg. Israhel v. M. tzu boekholt, die Bocholter Sammlung: vorgestellt mit ihren Abbildungen, erläutert mit Zitaten aus der Literatur und mit weiteren Anmerkungen versehen. Unser Bocholt. vol. 54, no. 3, 2003, pp. 76-77.
- 2010
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 43(Apr. 2008-Mar. 2009), 2010, List of New Acquisitions. p. 45.
- 2016
- Sacred and Secular: Israhel van Meckenem & Early German Engraving (exh. cat.). Nakada, Asuka; Iizuka, Takashi; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; The Western Art Foundation, 2016, pp. 100-104, 282, cat. no. 44, col. repr.