Christ Bearing the Cross (Kreuztragung), 1916

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on Japanese paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.6 × 34 cm (9 5/16 × 13 3/8 in.)

sheet: 35.56 × 50.4 cm (14 × 19 13/16 in.)
image: 22.86 × 33.02 cm (9 × 13 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Marcy Family in memory of Sigbert H. Marcy

Catalogue Raisonné

Schwarz 1922, no. 263, iii/iii

Accession Number

1991.210.70

Artists / Makers

Lovis Corinth (artist) German, 1858 - 1925

unidentified (printer)

Fritz Gurlitt (publisher) German, 1854 - 1893

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Weinet nicht über mich, sondern über Euch & eure Kinder! Ev. Lukas; lower right in graphite: Lovis Corinth; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: Schw. 263

Marks and Labels

verso, stamp in black ink: SM

Provenance

Sigbert Marzynski (Marcy); Dr. Toni G. Marcy, Los Angeles, California; acquired 1991 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Marcy, Toni G., Dr.
Marzynski, Sigbert

Exhibition History

1993: Lovis Corinth, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1993-1994, no. 20.

2024: The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

1922: Schwarz, Karl. Das graphische Werk von Lovis Corinth. Berlin, Germany: Fritz Gurlitt, 1922, no. 263, iii/iii.