Christ on the Cross with Angels, 1460/1465

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Medium

woodcut in brown, hand-colored in red lake, brown, yellow, green, black, and tan

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 949

Accession Number

1943.3.540

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Theodor Oswald Weigel [1812-1881], Leipzig; 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

Aufhäuser, Martin
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Weigel, Theodor Oswald

Exhibition History

1941: The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 11.

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 138, repro.

2002: Painted Prints: Renaissance and Baroque Hand-Colored Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts, The Baltimore Museum of Art; The Saint Louis Art Museum, 2002-2003, no. 2, 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. 138.

2002: Dackerman, Susan. Painted Prints: Renaissance and Baroque hand-Colored Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts. Exh. cat. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 2002-2003. University Park: 2002, no. 2, fig. 6.