Christ on the Cross with Angels

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut in brown, hand-colored in red lake, brown, yellow, green, black, and tan

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1943.3.540

  • 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


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