Christ on the Cross
in or before 1470
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut, hand-colored in red lake, yellow, brown, and green
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Credit Line
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Accession
1943.3.483
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schreiber, Vol. IX, no. 406, State a
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
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.
Wikidata ID
Q64952916