Christ on the Cross, 1490

Not on View

Medium

woodcut on vellum

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 386

Accession Number

1943.3.478

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

(Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Luzern, Cat. 20 (1930), no. 11); Josef Wunsch, Vienna; purchased 1 February 1930 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760b and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1932: Prints from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia, Lakeside Press Galleries, Chicago, IL, 1932, no. 2.

1933: A Century of Progress, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933, no. 4.

1945: Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 2.

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 55, 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: no. 55.