Crucifixion Relief from a Rosary Bead

1500/25

Flemish

On View: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance, Gallery 238

Title: Crucifixion Relief from a Rosary Bead
Origin: Flanders
Date: 1500–1525
Medium: Boxwood
Inscriptions: Latin inscriptions surround carved scene.
Dimensions: Diameter: 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1937.874

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]; on his death to his widow (died 1937); bequeathed to the Art Institute.

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