The Three Fates: Lachesis, Atropos and Clotho
1513
Hans Baldung Grien
Artist, German, 1484/1485 - 1545
Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet and block: 22 × 15.5 cm (8 11/16 × 6 1/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.904
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 236
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Henry Huth [1815-1878]; by descent to his son, Alfred Henry Huth [1850-1910]; (his sale, by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 6 July 1911, no. 235); (C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 5 November 1929, no. 36); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1933
An Exhibition of Prints from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1933, no. 53 (as "The Gods of Destiny").
1958
The Fantastic, the Occult, and the Bizarre in Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1958, no catalogue.
1965
Drolleries and Demons: Six Centuries of 'Fantastic' Prints, IBM Gallery, New York, NY, 1965, no. 12 (as "The Gods of Destiny").
1990
Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 109, repro.
2019
Hans Baldung Grien, Large State Exhibition of Baden-Wurttemberg, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2019 - 2020, no. 182.
Hans Baldung Grien, Large State Exhibition of Baden-Wurttemberg, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger
1990
Russell 1990, cat.no.109.
Inscriptions
in image, in block, on plaque hanging from tree branch at upper left: · HGB [artist's monogram] · 1513; on verso, in graphite at lower right: 36
Markings
none
Watermarks
Gothic P
Wikidata ID
Q64957172