Christ on the Cross with Angels
1460/1465
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut in brown, hand-colored in red lake, brown, yellow, green, black, and tan
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Credit Line
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Accession
1943.3.540
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schreiber, no. 949
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Theodor Oswald Weigel [1812-1881], Leipzig; Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] For complete information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Rosenwald Papers, box 9, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1941
The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 11.
1965
Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 138, repro.
2002
Painted Prints: Renaissance and Baroque Hand-Colored Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts, The Baltimore Museum of Art; The Saint Louis Art Museum, 2002-2003, no. 2, 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. 138.
2002
Dackerman, Susan. Painted Prints: Renaissance and Baroque hand-Colored Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts. Exh. cat. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 2002-2003. University Park: 2002, no. 2, fig. 6.
Wikidata ID
Q64952976