Christ on the Mount of Olives

German 15th Centuryc. 1460

Details

Title: Christ on the Mount of Olives
Creator: German 15th Century
Date Created: c. 1460
Provenance: Paul Davidson, Berlin (L.654); Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] sold 1939 via his son Walter Aufhäuser to Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L.1760c and 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 orange-red, gray, green, rose, light yellow, brown, and gold

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