The Crucifixion

c. 1480

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    metalcut, hand-colored in brown lake, pale ochre, and light green

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 24.1 x 17.5 cm (9 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.)
    overall (external frame dimensions): 59.7 x 44.5 cm (23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1957.13.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 2339, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1964

  • Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1964, no catalogue.

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 341, repro.

  • Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 41.

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.

2005

  • Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 66, 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.

Wikidata ID

Q65218708

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