{ "data": { "id": 135140, "accession_number": "1958.173", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "The Angel of the Annunciation\r\n, c. 1470\u201375. Martin Schongauer (German, c. 1450\u20131491). Engraving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1958.173", "current_location": null, "title": "The Angel of the Annunciation\r\n", "creation_date": "c. 1470\u201375", "creation_date_earliest": 1465, "creation_date_latest": 1480, "artists_tags": [ "male" ], "culture": [ "Germany" ], "technique": "engraving", "support_materials": [], "department": "Prints", "collection": "PR - Engraving", "type": "Print", "dimensions": {}, "state_of_the_work": "I/I", "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 301184, "title": "Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition", "description": "Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).", "opening_date": "1958-03-03T05:00:00" }, { "id": 350269, "title": "Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection", "description": "Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965).", "opening_date": "1965-05-06T04:00:00" }, { "id": 350752, "title": "Old Master Prints and Drawings", "description": "Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967).", "opening_date": "1966-07-29T04:00:00" }, { "id": 304516, "title": "Eight Masters of the Print", "description": "Eight Masters of the Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 14, 1980-January 18, 1981).", "opening_date": "1980-10-14T04:00:00" }, { "id": 304558, "title": "When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story", "description": "When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982).", "opening_date": "1981-12-01T05:00:00" }, { "id": 310039, "title": "Sacred and Profane in Late Gothic Prints", "description": "Sacred and Profane in Late Gothic Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 2-August 2, 1987).", "opening_date": "1987-06-02T04:00:00" }, { "id": 453138, "title": "Riemenschneider and Late Medieval Alabaster", "description": "Riemenschneider and Late Medieval Alabaster. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-July 23, 2023).", "opening_date": "2023-03-26T04:00:00" } ], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The sculptor Riemenschneider traveled to Strasbourg and became acquainted with the works of the engraver Martin Schongauer.", "description": "This engraving is half of a two-print scene depicting the Annunciation to the Virgin, when the angel Gabriel told Mary she would miraculously give birth to the Son of God. Presumably buyers could purchase the prints separately, although Schongauer probably hoped people would want to collect them both. His engraved lines masterfully emulate different natural qualities and textures, for example the spiraling locks of hair and the angel\u2019s wings.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80028125" ], "internet_archive": [ "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1958.173-the-angel-of-the-ann" ] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "Lutz, Gerhard. \u201cTilman Riemenschneider\u2019s Early Work and Alabaster Sculpture.\u201c In Riemenschneider and Late Medieval Alabaster, edited by Aumaine Rose Smith, 78-88. Cleveland, Lewes: The Cleveland Museum of Art; D Giles Limited, 2023.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 82, fig. 40", "url": "" } ], "catalogue_raisonne": "Lehrs V.42.2", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.173", "images": { "annotation": null, "web": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.173/1958.173_web.jpg", "width": "644", "height": "893", "filesize": "482131", "filename": "1958.173_web.jpg" }, "print": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.173/1958.173_print.jpg", "width": "2451", "height": "3400", "filesize": "6211847", "filename": "1958.173_print.jpg" }, "full": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.173/1958.173_full.tif", "width": "3492", "height": "4845", "filesize": "50789140", "filename": "1958.173_full.tif" } }, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Dudley P. Allen Fund", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 135140, "creators": [ { "id": 12292, "description": "Martin Schongauer (German, c. 1450\u20131491)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Martin Schongauer (ca. 1450-53, Colmar - 2 February 1491, Breisach) was one of the most skilled and influential graphic artists of Europe in the last quarter of the 15h century. Trained both as an engraver and as a painter, Schongauer started his apprenticeship under his father Caspar Schongauer, a goldsmith from Augsburg. In 1465, he matriculated at the University of Leipzig. After one year, he left his studies, and came back to Colmar. There, he was trained under the painter Caspar Isenmann, between 1466 and 1469. Schongauer later traveled down to the Rhine, Cologne, Burgundy, the Netherlands, and he likely visited Spain. In 1489, he became a citizen of Breisach, where he died probably of the plague in 1491. Only a few of Schongauer's paintings survive. Among these is the Madonna in the Rose Garden for the Church of Saint Martin in Colmar (1473), which betrays Schongauer's admiration for the works by the Netherlandish painter Roger Van der Weyden. The bulk of Schongauer's engravings is more conspicuous: 116 prints, none of them dated, but all marked by his monogram M+S. Characterized by exquisite cross-hatching and impeccable craftsmanship, Schongauer's engravings were widely imitated by the German printmakers Ishrael van Meckenem and Albrecht Durer, as well as by Italian artists, such as Cristoforo Robetta and Nicoletto da Modena.", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1450", "death_year": "1491", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1 } ], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1958-01-15T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1465, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "c. 1470\u201375", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-29 06:54:35.802000" } }