The Mount of Calvary

c. 1480

Master I.A.M. of Zwolle

Associated Names
Master I.A.M. of Zwolle

Artist, Dutch, active c. 1470/1490

This is a drawing of a crucifixion scene. The drawing depicts a detailed and chaotic scene centered around a crucifixion, with figures in various poses of anguish, prayer, and indifference. The central figure is on a cross, flanked by two other individuals in similar positions. A group of people and animals are gathered below, some on horseback. The background features buildings and a landscape. The drawing uses precise linework to convey texture and emotion across the scene.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 36.3 × 25.1 cm (14 5/16 × 9 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.5837

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 7, p.188, no. 6, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Edme-Antoine Durand [1768-1835], Paris (Lugt 741); D. G. de Arozarena, Paris (Lugt 109); D.U. [unidentified 19th-century collector] (Lugt 796); E. A. Seasongood [1876-1953], New York; (Arthur H. Harlow & Co., New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 107, repro.

1953

  • Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no catalogue.

1954

  • Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, no catalogue.

1956

  • Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.

1965

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond; and Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1965, no. 26.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 134, repro.

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 40, 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. 134.

1990

  • Russell 1990, no. 40.

Inscriptions

top center, in image, in plate: zwolle; bottom center, in margin below image, in plate: [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 1106 B-8251

Markings

lower left, stamped in black ink: mark of Edme-Antoine Durand (Lugt 741); verso, lower left, stamped in blue ink: mark of D.G. de Arozarena (Lugt 109); verso, lower left, stamped in blue ink: D.U. (Lugt 796)

Watermarks

Gothic p with flower (close to Briquet 8685 [Utrecht, 1461])

Wikidata ID

Q65023759

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