Christ on the Cross, in or before 1470

Not on View

Medium

woodcut, hand-colored in red lake, yellow, brown, and green

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, Vol. IX, no. 406, State a

Accession Number

1943.3.483

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

(C.G., Boerner, Leipzig, sale CLXI, May 10-15, 1929, lot 33); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1932: Prints from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia, Lakeside Press Galleries, Chicago, IL, 1932, no. 4.

1933: A Century of Progress, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933, no. 5a, repro.

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 61, repro.

1965: Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 14.

Bibliography

1926: Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.

1965: Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965: no. 61.