The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saints and the Hungerstein Family
c. 1492
Artist, German, active 1480s and 1490s

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and ink over traces of chalk and leadpoint on laid paper in bound volume
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
page size: 38.7 x 26.1 cm (15 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.)
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Accession
2006.11.15
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Biblioteca Künastiana, Denmark, 1667; (sale, London, Christie's, 28 June 1972, lot 31); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift by Andrea Woodner in 2006.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1973
Woodner Collection II: Old Master Drawings from the XV to the XVIII Century, William H. Schab Gallery, New York and tour, 1973-74, no. 1D.
1983
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu and tour, 1983-85, no. 39B.
1986
Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 54.
Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 44.
1987
Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 42.
1990
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 52.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 14.
2006
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.
2009
Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 2009.
2017
The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.
Bibliography
1973
Anzelewsky, F. Von späten Mittelalter bis zu Jacques-Louis David. Exh. cat. Staatliche Museen, Berlin, 1973: mentioned under no. 10.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 14.
2012
Schmidt, Peter. "Historigraphie und persönliche Aneignung von Geschichte. Die wiederentdeckte Künastsche Handschrift der Strassburger Chronik des Jakob Twinger von Königshofen." Schreiben und Lesen in her Stadt: Literaturbetrieb im spätmittelalterlichen Strassburg. 2012: 343-344, 361-362, pls. 4, 5 (detail).
Inscriptions
upper center in pen and black ink: INRI