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Primary Master of the Strassburg Chronicle

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saints and the Hungerstein Family, c. 1492

Not on View

volume Title

The Strassburg Chronicle

Medium

pen and ink over traces of chalk and leadpoint on laid paper in bound volume

Dimensions

page size: 38.7 x 26.1 cm (15 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

Accession Number

2006.11.15

Artists / Makers

Primary Master of the Strassburg Chronicle (artist) German, active 1480s and 1490s

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Inscription

upper center in pen and black ink: INRI

Provenance

Biblioteca Künastiana, Denmark, 1667; (sale, London, Christie's, 28 June 1972, lot 31); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift by Andrea Woodner in 2006.

Associated Names

Anonymous
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Andrea
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1973: Woodner Collection II: Old Master Drawings from the XV to the XVIII Century, William H. Schab Gallery, New York and tour, 1973-74, no. 1D.

1983: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu and tour, 1983-85, no. 39B.

1986: Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 54.

1986: Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 44.

1987: Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 42.

1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 52.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 14.

2006: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2009: Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 2009.

2017: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1973: Anzelewsky, F. Von späten Mittelalter bis zu Jacques-Louis David. Exh. cat. Staatliche Museen, Berlin, 1973: mentioned under no. 10.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 14.

2012: Schmidt, Peter. "Historigraphie und persönliche Aneignung von Geschichte. Die wiederentdeckte Künastsche Handschrift der Strassburger Chronik des Jakob Twinger von Königshofen." Schreiben und Lesen in her Stadt: Literaturbetrieb im spätmittelalterlichen Strassburg. 2012: 343-344, 361-362, pls. 4, 5 (detail).