Christ on the Cross

1450/1460

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored in dark red, blue-green, olive, yellow-brown and blue; printed in brown ink on two sheets of paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 82.9 x 52.8 cm (32 5/8 x 20 13/16 in.)
    overall (external frame dimensions): 92.1 x 64.1 cm (36 1/4 x 25 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1950.16.291

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, Vol. IX, no. 947, State m

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Accessions of Prints and Drawings, NGA, 1950, no. 24.

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 136, repro.

2005

  • Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 65, repro.

Bibliography

1926

  • Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.

1965

  • Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965.

Watermarks

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Wikidata ID

Q65216099

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