The Crucifixion
c. 1490/1500
Artist, German, c. 1445 - 1503

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving with traces of hand coloring on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 26.3 × 18.2 cm (10 3/8 × 7 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.104
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.041, no. 43, State ii/iii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(P. & D. Colnaghi Co., London); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1928; 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. 228, repro.
2023
Art of Enterprise: Israhel van Meckenem and his Late Medieval Print Shop, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2023-2024.
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, 1934: Vol. 9, no. 43, ii/iii.
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Blaricum: A.L. van Gendt B.V., 1986: Vol. XXIV, no. 43, ii/iii.
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. 228.
Inscriptions
in plate, at lower center: Israhel V. [jawbone] M.; verso, in graphite, by a later hand, at center right: B. 28 / G. 100 / c.17218
Markings
none
Watermarks
shield with three fleurs-de-lis and affixed letter T (Lehrs 41)
Wikidata ID
Q64958356