Christ's coronation with thorns
Stained Glass Design
ca. 1528 (drawn), 1910-1914 (printed)
ca. 1528 (drawn), 1910-1914 (printed)
| Artist/Maker |
The original pen and black ink drawing by Hans Holbein the younger is in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel and is part of The Passion Series. These ten drawings were Holbein's most famous and most copied designs for stained glass.
Object details
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| Title | Christ's coronation with thorns (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Collotype |
| Brief description | Reproduction print of Christ's coronation with thorns by Hans Holbein the Younger |
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| Credit line | Given by Michael Voggenauer, in memory of his father Josef Voggenauer |
| Production | Printer unknown. |
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| Summary | The original pen and black ink drawing by Hans Holbein the younger is in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel and is part of The Passion Series. These ten drawings were Holbein's most famous and most copied designs for stained glass. |
| Bibliographic reference | 'Among Hans Holbein the Younger's most famous and most copied designs for stained glass is the series of ten drawings portraying The Passion of Christ in the Kupferstichkabinett, Basel. They served as the bases for offsets, seven of which survive in the British Museum, which were owned by the artist and historiographer Joachim von Sandart (1606-1688), who regarded them as originals and praised them as masterpieces by Holbein in his Teutsche Academie. The Basel drawings are predicated compositionally upon the great Passion Altarpiece (Basel, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, inv. no. 315; fig. 99), which Holbein is generally thought to have made around 1525; the drawings were probably made after his return from England around 1528. With their multifigured compositions, rounded, powerfully modeled figures, gravity of expression, and palpable spatiality, The Crucifixion (cat. no. 146) and its companions appear to have been ambitiously conceived by Holbein in the format of a series of framed paintings.' |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.146-2006 |
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| Record created | June 1, 2006 |
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