The Crucifixion

1494

Austrian or Bavarian

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

Artist: Austrian
Title: The Crucifixion
Place: Austria (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.: 1494
Medium: Oil on panel
Inscriptions: Inscribed: 1494 (on base of cross), I.N.R.I ( on top of cross)
Dimensions: Painted surface: 26 × 19.7 cm (10 1/4 × 7 3/4 in.); Panel with engaged frame: 32.3 × 26 cm (12 3/4 × 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Reference Number: 1947.52
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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.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames, 1300–1900, Oct. 17-Dec. 14, 1986, no. 33.
Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Reuniting Two Works, September 5, 2015-January 1, 2017, no cat.

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.

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