Crucifixion Relief from a Rosary Bead

1500–25

Flemish

Status: On View, Gallery 238
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Flemish
Title: Crucifixion Relief from a Rosary Bead
Place: Flanders (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.: 1500–1525
Medium: Wood
Inscriptions: Inscribed: AVE SPES VINCA HOC PASSIONIS TEMPORAE ANAW (?) PIIS IVSTICA REIS Q[VE] VENIAM (around carved scene)
Dimensions: Diam.: 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1937.874
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La Collection Spitzer -Antiquité - Moyen Âge - Renaissance, vol. 3, Paris and London, 1891, p. 256, no. 4, pl. II.
Jaap Leeuwenberg, “De Gebedsnoot van Eewert Jansz van Bleiswick en anderere Werken van Adam Dirksz.,” Miscellanea Jozef Duverger. Bijdragen tot de Kunstgeschiedenis der Nederlanden, Ghent, 1968, pp. 619-20.
Susan Jean Romanelli, “South Netherlandish Boxwood Devotional Sculpture, 1475-1530, Ph.D dissertation, Columbia University, 1992, pp. 363-4, no. 74, pl. 112.

Frédéric Spitzer (died 1890), Paris; his estate sale, Paris, Chevallier and Mannheim, April 17 - June 16, 1893, no. 2126, with wings and stand, mounted as a triptych; acquired by Durand-Ruel as agent for Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago [according to copy of receipt in curatorial file]; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

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