The Crucifixion [reverse], 1535/1574

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 13A

Medium

gilded bronze

Dimensions

overall (diameter): 6.6 cm (2 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.578.b

Artists / Makers

Hans Reinhart the Elder (sculptor) German, c. 1510 - 1581

Image Use

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Inscription

around circumference: .VT.MOSES.EREXiT.SERPeTe iTa.ChrS.IN.CRVCE.EXALTATVS.ET.RESVCiTATVS CAPVT.SERpeTiS.COTRIViT.VT.SALVARET.CREDeTES.; beneath main scene on scroll: SPES.MEA.IN.DEO.EST.

Provenance

Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his estate; purchased 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 1945 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1957 to NGA.

Associated Names

Dreyfus, Gustave
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.

Bibliography

1998: Bekker, Gerd. Europäische Plaketten und Medaillen vom 15. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. Leipzig, 1998: 160.