The Crowning with Thorns

c. 1440/1450

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 8.7 × 6.1 cm (3 7/16 × 2 3/8 in.)
    sheet (irregular): 11.2 × 10.5 cm (4 7/16 × 4 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.5835

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, undescribed

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale 18, Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Lucerne, no. 11); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1939; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 1, 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.

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. 1.

Wikidata ID

Q65018769

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