id: 157012
accession number: 1993.161
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The Garden of Love (Large Plate), c. 1465. Master ES (German, active 1450–67). Engraving; plate: 23.5 x 15.8 cm (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.); sheet: 23.8 x 16.5 cm (9 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1993.161
title: The Garden of Love (Large Plate)
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creation date: c. 1465
creation date earliest: 1460
creation date latest: 1470
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: Germany, 15th century
technique: engraving
department: Prints
collection: PR - Engraving
type: Print
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catalogue raisonne: Lehrs 215
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CREATORS
* Master ES (German, active 1450–67) - artist
active ca. 1450-1467
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measurements: Plate: 23.5 x 15.8 cm (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.); Sheet: 23.8 x 16.5 cm (9 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages
opening date: 1998-11-08T00:00:00
Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages. National Gallery of Art (organizer) (November 8, 1998-January 31, 1999).
title: The Medieval Housebook: The Real and the Ideal--A Fifteenth-Century View of Life
opening date: 1999-05-17T00:00:00
The Medieval Housebook: The Real and the Ideal--A Fifteenth-Century View of Life. Frick Collection, New York, NY (organizer) (May 17-July 11, 1999).
title: Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2014-03-09T00:00:00
Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).
title: Imagining the Garden
opening date: 2015-10-24T00:00:00
Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).
title: A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe
opening date: 2017-02-04T00:00:00
A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe. John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (organizer) (February 4-April 30, 2017).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints 1400-1800, cat. no. 24.
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PROVENANCE
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The Master E. S. was the most important engraver active in northern Germany around the middle of the 1400s when, for the first time, printmakers signed their work. His representation of the garden of love departs from pictorial tradition, which usually portrayed the scene as an idyllic realm of music, feasting, and games where women inspired dedicated service from their admirers. Here, however, the Master E. S. satirized the ideals of courtly love and warned against the immoral behavior forbidden by the Roman Catholic Church and local authorities. While the woman opening the man’s coat in the foreground represents temptation and sin, her companion, the fool, symbolizes lust. One of the most important prints by the Master E. S., The Garden of Love (Large Plate) is known in only five impressions.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Husband, Timothy. The Medieval Housebook & the Art of Illustration. New York: Frick Collection, 1999.
page number: p. 56, fig. 20
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"1993 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (1994): 143-218.
page number: Reproduced: p. 165
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457
Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 346-347
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Bagnoli, Martina, ed. A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe. Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, 2016.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 249-250, cat. # 118
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1993.161/1993.161_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1993.161/1993.161_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1993.161/1993.161_full.tif