Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist

1514

Wolf Traut

Associated Names
Wolf Traut

Artist, German, c. 1486 - 1520

The image shows three figures, with a central figure on a cross in a crucified position. The central figure is a man with a thin build, short hair, a beard, wearing a cloth around his waist, and a crown of thorns. His arms are outstretched, head tilted downward, and face strained. On the left is a person standing covered in flowing garments with a hooded cloak, looking down. On the right is another person standing in robes with curly hair and a beard, looking up. Both hold their robes. The background has hills, trees, and a distant building. Above the central figure is an inscribed sign "I.N.R.I." and vine leaves and fruit at the top corners of the frame. A skull is at the base of the cross in the landscape.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on vellum

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    block: 24.9 × 17.8 cm (9 13/16 × 7 in.)
    sheet: 32.6 × 22.4 cm (12 13/16 × 8 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8128

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 216, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein's German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. Vol. XCV (Wolf Traut, Dieter Beaujean, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2019, no. 216, state only.

Inscriptions

verso, at top, in brown ink: Collecta. / + / Et famulos tuos summum Pontificem, Imperatorem et Imperatricem, / Reges et principes nostros (Antistitem et praepositum nostrum) ac / nos indignos famulos tuos, simul cum benefactoribus nostris, una / cum ombnibus Christifidelibus, dirige in viam salutis et prosperitatis / aeternae; et pacem tuam nostris concede temporibus, ac faelicem nobis / britue huius Vitae consumationem. Per dominum nostrum Felum[?]ri / stam filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et reonat in Viutate Spritus sacti / Deus per omnia secula seculorum. / Amen.; at bottom in graphite by a later hand: c. 19111

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65027021

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