The Crucified Christ in a Decorated Niche
1520s
Artist, German, c. 1470 - 1536
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching (iron) on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 22.4 x 14.9 cm (8 13/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
sheet: 22.7 x 15.2 cm (8 15/16 x 6 in.) -
Accession
2000.154.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 18, State i/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
P. Gervaise, Paris (d. 1860) (Lugt 1078). Graphische Sammlung, Munich (2723 and duplicate stamp, Lugt 2397). (C.G. Boerner, Inc., New York); purchased 2000 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2012
Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 25.
Bibliography
1802
Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: A.L. van Gendt, 1986; Vol. XV, 18, i/ii.
2009
Metzger, Christof. Daniel Hopfer: ein Augsburger Meister der Renaissance : Eisenradierungen, Holzschnitte, Zeichnungen, Waffenätzungen. München: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung; Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009, no. 22, i/iv.
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: DH; by later hand, in banner at upper right in brown ink: 1530; by later hand, lower right in graphite: BM 13; by later hand, center verso in graphite: B 13 I vol.... No / (not deciphered) / 15m. / ex Bibliotheque / (not deciphered); by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: N. 50 / 350
Markings
illegible blindstamp
Watermarks
crown with a cross (not identified)
Wikidata ID
Q76337989