Christ on the Cross with Angels, c. 1490

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Medium

woodcut, hand-colored in blue, yellow, orange, green, brown, carmine, and gold on vellum

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 953, State variant

Accession Number

1943.3.543

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

verso, in red ink by a later hand: Anno 1599 habe ich das buch fon Kasper sin dem pekomen

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

Aufhäuser, Martin
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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.