Christ Healing the Lepers

Description

This print portrays Christ—with the twelve apostles—miraculously healing a group of lepers encountered on his way to Jerusalem. Andrea Andreani who, after 1599, acquired a number of the earlier blocks of artists like Vicentino and Ugo de Carpi. He published these as his own, reworking them in some cases and adding his initials, an in the CMA example.

Provenance

Galerie Arnot, Vienna and Paris, stamp (Lugt 124), verso, upper left, in black ink ; purchased from Maurice Gobin, Paris

Christ Healing the Lepers

Andrea Andreani

1608

Accession Number

1925.983

Medium

chiaroscuro woodcut (in two shades of gray and black)

Dimensions

Sheet: 29.8 x 41.8 cm (11 3/4 x 16 7/16 in.)

Classification

Print

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland