Plaque with Christ Carrying the Cross

ca. 1530 (Renaissance)

13.8 cm 17 cm

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The episode of Christ carrying his cross to Calvary would be part of a Passion series making up an altarpiece for private devotion. The setting is indebted to the corresponding scene in the German artist Albrecht Dürer's "Small Woodcut Passion" of 1509-11. The composition is l...

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[in Venice in 1863]; Baron de Theïs Collection Sale, Paris, May 6, 1874; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, ca. 1919, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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