Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John, 1491

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series Title

Missale Augustanum

Medium

color woodcut, printed in black, red, blue, brown, olive, and yellow on vellum, and hand-colored in blue, pinkish beige, and some touches of red on vellum

Dimensions

image: 21.8 x 13.7 cm (8 9/16 x 5 3/8 in.)

sheet: 29.4 x 19.9 cm (11 9/16 x 7 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Lt. Col. and Mrs. William K. Konze

Catalogue Raisonné

Heitz and Schreiber 1910, no. 1

Accession Number

2009.60.1

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (Augsburg) (artist)

Erhard Ratdolt (publisher) German, 1447 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center: Or famulu tuum... / ... tempoubus

Provenance

Unidentified collector FG (similar to Lugt 1003, Gauermann, but not the same). (August Laube, Zurich); purchased 2009 by NGA.

Associated Names

Laube, August

Exhibition History

2012: Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 15, repro. fig. 18.

Bibliography

1910: Heitz, Paul, and W.L. Schreiber, Christus am Kreuz : Kanonbilder der in Deutschland gedruckten Messbücher des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts.
Strassburg, 1910, no. 1.