Christ Crowned with Thorns

1550s

Andrea Meldolla, called Schiavone

Artist, Italian, c. 1500 - 1563

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 32.6 x 22.2 cm (12 13/16 x 8 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.11.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Nagler Mon., no. 907

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 30 November 2006, no. 5187); (via C. G. Boerner, 2006); purchased by NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2007

  • The Baroque Woodcut, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007 - 2008

2019

  • Venetian Prints in the Time of Tintoretto, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019.

Bibliography

1858

  • Nagler, G.K. Die Monogrammisten und diejenigen bekannten und unbekannten Kunstler aller Schulen .... 5 vols. Munich: G. Franz, 1858-1879. Reprint. Munich: G. Hirth's Verlag, 1919.

Inscriptions

lower right in image: AM (in monogram); by later hand, upper right verso in brown ink: 2p15(?)

Watermarks

anchor (similar to Woodward 165, Italian, mid 16th century)

Wikidata ID

Q76335550

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