The Crucifixion

1514

Hans Baldung Grien

Associated Names
Hans Baldung Grien

Artist, German, 1484/1485 - 1545

The image includes four figures. In the center, a man with long hair is hanging on a wooden cross, arms outstretched. He has a beard, closed eyes, and wears a crown of thorns, with minimal clothing. To his left, a woman with long hair is kneeling and covering her face. To his right, two figures stand close together - a man with shoulder-length hair and soft facial features, draped in a long garment, and a woman with bowed head wearing flowing garments and a head covering with a halo-like circle. The background shows hills, silhouetted figures, dramatic clouds, a skull and bones on the ground, and a sign reading "INRI" on top of the cross.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chiaroscuro woodcut in black and brown

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 37.4 x 26.2 cm (14 3/4 x 10 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.901

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 11

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1943

  • Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 48-49, repro.

1959

  • Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, 1959, no catalogue.

1965

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 43.

1969

  • Symbols in Transformation: Iconographic Themes at the Time of the Reformation, Princeton University Art Museum, 1969, no. 37, repro.

1971

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Saint John's College, Santa Fe, NM, 1971, no catalogue.

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, VA, 1971, no. 12 repro.

1982

  • Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1982, no. 35, repro.

1988

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

1982

  • Fine, Ruth E. Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982, no. 35.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: HGB

Wikidata ID

Q64957158

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