Christ as the Man of Sorrows

c. 1500

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored in vermilion, dark green, light blue and brown; glued into the top lid of a travelling strong box

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 22.5 x 14.5 cm (8 7/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
    overall (cofferet): 10 x 16 x 23.5 cm (3 15/16 x 6 5/16 x 9 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1952.8.7

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, Vol. IX, no. 899, State x


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 127, repro.

2005

  • Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 42, 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.

1991

  • Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 213, repro.

Inscriptions

at top, in block: Ecce Homo

Watermarks

none visible

Wikidata ID

Q65218421


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