Christ on the Cross with Angels
c. 1490
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut, hand-colored in blue, yellow, orange, green, brown, carmine, and gold on vellum
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Credit Line
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Accession
1943.3.543
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schreiber, no. 953, State variant
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] For complete information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Rosenwald Papers, box 9, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1965
Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 141, repro.
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. 140.
Inscriptions
verso, in red ink by a later hand: Anno 1599 habe ich das buch fon Kasper sin dem pekomen
Wikidata ID
Q64952979