Christ on the Cross

c. 1450

German 15th Century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored in yellow ocher, green, and red-orange on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 3.5 × 2.7 cm (1 3/8 × 1 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.811

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 466

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Anton W.M. Mensing [1866-1936], Amsterdam). (Sotheby's, 18 December 1936, lot 206); purchased 18 December 1936 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760b and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 72, 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.

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64953420

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