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Christ Carrying the Cross
Hans Maler · c. 1510
Provenance
Ownership history
- Private collection, France [according to Baldass 1926/27]; Galerie St. Lucas, Vienna, 1926 [Baldass 1926/27]. A. S. Drey, Munich, by 1928; sold to Charles Worcester, Chicago, 1928 [letter from Drey to Worcester, Nov. 26, 1928, Art Institute Archives]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1930; given to the Art Institute, 1947.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, 1928–29 (no cat.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 24.
Literature
Published references
- Ludwig Baldass, “Beiträge zur Hausbuchmeisterfrage,” Oberrheinische Kunst 2 (1926–27), pp. 185–86, pl. 89.
- Fritz Saxl, “Die Karlsruher Kreuztragung des Meisters HH (Hans Holbein d. J.?),” Belvedere 9 (1930), pp. 205–08, 210, fig. 118.
- Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 24 (1930), p. 82 (ill.).
- Otto Benesch, “Beiträge zur oberschwäbischen Bild-nismalerei,” Jahrbuch der preussischen Kunstsammlung 54 (1933), p. 245.
- Charles L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1936, pp. 63–64, no. 262.
- Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Chicago, 1938, pp. 40–41, no. 40, pl. 28.
- Ernst Buchner, review of Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 37, 1950, in Zeitschrift für Kunst 4 (1950), p. 319.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, pp. 266–67.
- Heinz von Mackowitz, Der Maler Hans von Schwaz, Innsbruck, 1960, pp. 62, 74.
- Alfred Stange, “Hans Maler: Neue Funde und Forschungen,” Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsam-mlungen in Baden-Württemberg 3 (1966), p. 83.
- John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, London, 1970, pp. 252 (ill.), 283.
- Michael Roth, “Kunstwerk des Monats: Ulmer Mu-seum; April 1996,” brochure, n.pag. (ill.).
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