Christ on the Cross

German 15th Centuryc. 1460

Details

Title: Christ on the Cross
Creator: German 15th Century
Date Created: c. 1460
Provenance: (C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, Sale 157, no. 47); (Weisse & Co. Munich); Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] sold 1939 via his son Walter Aufhäuser to Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L.1932d); gift to NGA, 1943. [1] For more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, _Recollections of a Collector_, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, and Richard S. Field, _Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts_, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).
Medium: woodcut, hand-colored in blue, orange, yellow, green, rose, gray, and silver

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