Christ Bearing the Cross, c. 1500

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Medium

woodcut, hand-colored in mauve, red, blue, green, ochre, yellow, black, white, and gold, on vellum

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 353

Accession Number

1943.3.473

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

(Anton W.M. Mensing [1866-1936], Amsterdam). (Sotheby's, December 18, 1936, lot 228); purchased 18 December 1936 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760b and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Mensing, Anton W.M.
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 48, 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. 48.