Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John, 1542

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 26.6 × 17.2 cm (10 1/2 × 6 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 7, State only

Accession Number

1946.20.1

Artists / Makers

Hans Brosamer (artist) German, c. 1500 - 1552 or 1554

Image Use

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Inscription

on a tablet atop the cross, in plate: [two lines in Hebrew]; on a scroll held by angels at upper left, in plate: SIC DICIT DOMINVS, / CONVERTERE AD ME, / QVONIAM REDEMI TE. / ESAIAE XXXXIIII.; on a scroll held by angels at upper right, in plate: OMNIS QVIVIVIT / ET CREDIT IN ME. / NON MORIETVR / IN AETERNVM. IOHAN. / .XI.; below cross, in plate; [two lines in Greek]; on a tablet at the foot of the cross, in plate: IOHANNES BRO / SAMER FVLDAE / DEGENS / FACIEBAT / 15 42 / HB

Provenance

(William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1946; gift to NGA, 1946.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1959: Holl. 7.

1996: The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Hans and Martin Brosamer, Martin Knauer, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2015; Part I, no. 7.