The Bearing of the Cross with Saint Veronica

c. 1480

Martin Schongauer

Artist, German, c. 1450 - 1491

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 16.5 x 11.8 cm (6 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1941.1.50

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 26, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

W.G. Russell Allen [1882-1955], Boston; gift to the NGA, 1941.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1945

  • Religious Prints and Drawings from the Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1945, no cat.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 58, repro.

Bibliography

1908

  • Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

1967

  • Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 58.

1992

  • Hand, John Oliver, "Salve sancta facies: Some Thoughts on the Iconography of the Head of Christ by Petrus Christus." Metropolitan Museum Journal 27 (1992): 14, fig. 7.

Wikidata ID

Q64960171

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