
Christ Carrying the Cross
Master of the Freising Visitation · c. 1490
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sale, Munich, Hugo Helbing, June 1, 1896, no. 920 (ill.), as South German, 16th century. Frederic C. Bartlett, Chicago, by 1916; given to the AIC, 1916.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Lilli Fischel, Die Karlsruher Passion und ihr Meister, Karlsruhe, 1952, p. 63 n. 120.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 175.
- Ilse Hecht, “Eine Kreuztragung des Meisters der Freisinger Heimsuchung in Chicago,” Jahrbuch des Vereins für christliche Kunst in München 18 (1990), pp. 109–12 (ill).
- Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 411-14, ill.
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