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Christ crowned with thorns

Oil Painting
ca. 1500 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oil painting


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Christ crowned with thorns (generic title)
  • Christ bearing His cross (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on pine panel
Brief description
Oil painting, 'Christ Crowned with Thorns (reverse: Christ Bearing His Cross)', South German School, ca. 1500
Physical description
Oil painting
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 32.7cm
  • Estimate width: 19cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. Before 1800, C.M. Kauffmann, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1973
Style
Credit line
Bequeathed by John M. Parsons
Object history
Bequeathed by John M. Parsons, 1870
Production
Acquired, along with 530-1870, as the work of Hubert van Eyck, both paintings were reattributed to the German School, 16th century, by Sir Charles Holmes in 1933.
Subject depicted
Associated object
530-1870 (Ensemble)
Bibliographic reference
Kauffmann, C.M., Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. Before 1800. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973, pp. 123-4, cat. no. 139
Collection
Accession number
531-1870

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Record createdApril 24, 2007
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