Christ Carrying the Cross

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1490

Master of the Freising Visitation
German (Bavarian)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Master of the Freising Visitation
Title: Christ Carrying the Cross
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1401–1500
Medium: Oil on panel
Inscriptions: Inscribed: HO / IGI (on banner at upper left)
Dimensions: 108.4 × 98 cm (42 5/8 × 38 9/16 in.); Painted surface: 106 × 97 cm (41 3/4 × 38 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Frederic C. Bartlett
Reference Number: 1916.371
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Lilli Fischel, Die Karlsruher Passion und ihr Meister, Karlsruhe, 1952, p. 63 n. 120.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 175.
Ilse Hecht, “Eine Kreuztragung des Meisters der Freisinger Heimsuchung in Chicago,” Jahrbuch des Vereins für christliche Kunst in München 18 (1990), pp. 109–12 (ill).
Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 411-14, ill.

Sale, Munich, Hugo Helbing, June 1, 1896, no. 920 (ill.), as South German, 16th century. Frederic C. Bartlett, Chicago, by 1916; given to the AIC, 1916.

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