Christ on the Mount of Olives

Provenance

Franciscan Convent, Bozen; (Weiss & Co., Munich); Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] purchased 19 August 1939 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943. [1] For more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, _Recollections of a Collector_, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, and Richard S. Field, _Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts_, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

Christ on the Mount of Olives

German 15th Century

c. 1490

Accession Number

1943.3.465

Medium

woodcut, hand-colored in green, carmine, rose, yellow, gray, blue, and brown

Dimensions

N/A

Classification

Print

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection