Christ on the Cross

c. 1490/1500

German 15th Century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored in blue-green, vermilion, lavender, brown, olive, and yellow

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 11.2 × 7.3 cm (4 7/16 × 2 7/8 in.)
    mount: 12.8 × 9 cm (5 1/16 × 3 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.491

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 456, State a

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] sold 1939 via his son Walter Aufhäuser to Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] For more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Recollections of a Collector, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 71, repro.

Bibliography

1926

  • Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.

1965

  • Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965: no. 71.

Watermarks

indeterminate

Wikidata ID

Q64952927

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