Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John
1491
Publisher, German, 1447 - 1528

Artwork overview
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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
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Credit Line
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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.) -
Accession
2009.60.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Heitz and Schreiber 1910, no. 1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Unidentified collector FG (similar to Lugt 1003, Gauermann, but not the same). (August Laube, Zurich); purchased 2009 by NGA.
Associated Names
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.
Inscriptions
lower center: Or famulu tuum... / ... tempoubus
Wikidata ID
Q76439150