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The Garden of Love (Large Plate)

c. 1465

Master ES

(German, active 1450–67)

Germany, 15th century

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.)

John L. Severance Fund 1993.161

Catalogue raisonné: Lehrs 215

Location

not on view

Description

Master ES’s action-packed scene presents a love garden before a landscape with knights playing jousting games. Love gardens were locales for displaying chaste love, but the behavior here, such as touching and wine drinking between couples at the table, indicates that their love is rather more physical. A traveling poet at the door brings musical enticements, and a man with a fool’s cap in the foreground signifies lust. The many birds throughout the scene refer to coupling, since “birding” was a euphemism for the sex act.

Artist biography

Master ES

active ca. 1450-1467

Provenance

?-c.1948/50

Count Maltzan, Militsch (Lugt supp. 3024a, not stamped)

c. 1960

Dr. Otto Schäfer, Schweinfurt (Lugt 5881, stamped, verso)

June, 1992

his auction, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, no. 207, under lot 19

1993

with Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt

Citations

Husband, Timothy. The Medieval Housebook & the Art of Illustration. New York: Frick Collection, 1999. p. 56, fig. 20

"1993 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (1994): 143-218. Reproduced: p. 165 www.jstor.org

Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 346-347

Bagnoli, Martina, ed. A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe. Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, 2016. Reproduced: pp. 249-250, cat. # 118

Peters, Emily J. "Love Gardens/Forbidden Fruit: Nature and landscape before 1600." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 63, no. 2 (2023): 12-13. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 12.

Exhibition history

Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints 1400-1800, cat. no. 24.

Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages. National Gallery of Art (organizer) (November 8, 1998-January 31, 1999).

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).

Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).

Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).

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).

Love Gardens / Forbidden Fruit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 2-October 29, 2023).

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