The Crucifixion [reverse]

1535/1574

Hans Reinhart the Elder

Sculptor, German, c. 1510 - 1581

Hans Reinhart the Elder

Attributed to

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On View

NGA, West Building, G-013-A

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gilded bronze

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 6.6 cm (2 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1957.14.578.b

Associated Artworks

The Fall of Man [obverse]

Hans Reinhart the Elder

1535

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his estate; purchased 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 1945 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1957 to NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1998

  • Bekker, Gerd. Europäische Plaketten und Medaillen vom 15. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. Leipzig, 1998: 160.

Inscriptions

around circumference: .VT.MOSES.EREXiT.SERPeTe iTa.ChrS.IN.CRVCE.EXALTATVS.ET.RESVCiTATVS CAPVT.SERpeTiS.COTRIViT.VT.SALVARET.CREDeTES.; beneath main scene on scroll: SPES.MEA.IN.DEO.EST.

Wikidata ID

Q63815010

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