Object Information
Crucifixion, 1494
Oil on panel
painted surface 12 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. (32.3 x 26 cm ); 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. (26 x 19.7 cm)
Inscribed on base of Cross: 1494
Inscribed on top of Cross: I.N.R.I
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection, 1947.52
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames, 1300–1900, 1986, no. 33.
Publication History
Charles L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1936, p. 74, no. 322.
Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Chicago, 1938, pp. 36–37, no. 31, pl. 23.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Chicago, 1961, p. 16.
Ownership History
Count Johann Nepomuk Wilczek (died 1922), Burg Kreuzenstein, near Vienna [according to letter from Otto Benesch to Charles Worcester, April 13, 1938, in the curatorial file; what appears to be an inventory number (No. 30684) stamped three times on the back could not be linked with records at Burg Kreuzenstein]. E. and A. Silberman Galleries, Vienna and New York, by 1934 [according to the registrar’s receipt, October 15, 1934, the painting was shipped by E. and A. Silberman of 32 East 57th Street, New York]; sold to Charles H. Worcester, 1934; given to the Art Institute, 1947.