The Crucifixion

c. 1490/1500

Israhel van Meckenem

Artist, German, c. 1445 - 1503

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving with traces of hand coloring on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 26.3 × 18.2 cm (10 3/8 × 7 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.104

  • 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


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