
Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut, hand-colored in lavender, rose, green, yellow, brown, blue, and red on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 7.2 × 5.5 cm (2 13/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.858.b
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schreiber, no. 335, State m
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Series Title
Two Scenes from a Passion Series
Associated Artworks

Pilate Washing His Hands [recto]
German 15th Century
1440
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Maihingen. W.M.H. Milner. (Sotheby's, 18 December 1936, no. 140); purchased 18 December 1936 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1943
Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 10-11, repro.
1965
Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 45, 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
Q64953500