
Christ Carrying the Cross
Master of the Worcester Carrying of the Cross · c. 1425
Provenance
Ownership history
- Julius Böhler, Munich, by July 1928 [letter from Böhler dated July 22, 1928 in Art Institute archives]; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, July 1928; given by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Worcester, 1947.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Kleinberger, Loan Exhibition of German Primitives for the Benefit of the American Red Cross, 1928, no. 3, as Master of Vienna.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 26, as Master André (?).
- Cleveland Museum of Art, The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, 1936, no. 197, as Master André (?).
- Art Instititute of Chicago, Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, 2004 (no cat.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters: Research on Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute, 26 June—14 September 2008, no cat.
- Bruges, Groeningemuseum, From Van Eyck to Dürer: Artistic Exchanges between the Netherlands and Central, Eastern and Northern Europe, c. 1420-1530, October 28, 2010 - January 30, 2011, cat. 177.
- Munich, Neuburg Palace, Art and Faith: Otteinrich's Illustrated Bible and the Neuburg Palace Chapel, May 12-August 7, 2016, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- “Early German Exhibition at Kleinberger’s,” Art News 27, 6 (1928), p. 1.
- Frank E. Washburn Freund, “Ausstellung altdeutscher Malerei in den F. Kleinberger Galleries zu New York,” Belvedere 8 (1929), p. 285, fig. 4.
- Ludwig Baldass, “Der Meister des Grazer Dombildes und seine kunstgeschichtliche Stellung: Ein Beitrag zur Lösung der Pfenning-Laib Frage,” Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, n.s., 4 (1930), p. 196.
- Otto Benesch, review of Elfried Bock, Die Zeichnungen in der Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen, in Belvedere 9 (1930), pp. 76–77.
- E. Heinrich Zimmermann, “Nürnberger Malerei, 1350–1450: Die Tafelmalerei,” Anzeiger des Germanischen National-museums (1930–31), pp. 40–42, 53, pl. 145.
- Alfred M. Frankfurter, “Art in the Century of Progress,” Fine Arts 20, 2 (1933), p. 18 (ill.), 60.
- Ludwig Baldass, “Der Wiener Schnitzaltar,” Jahr-buch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, n.s., 9 (1935), pp. 38, 43–46, fig. 24.
- Otto Benesch, Die Meisterzeichnung, vol. 5, Österreichische Handzeichnungen des XV. und XVI. Jahrhun-derts, Freiburg im Breisgau and London, 1936, pp. 17–21, 41.
- Otto Benesch, “Zur österreichischen Handzeichnung der Gotik und Renaissance,” Monatsschrift für Kultur und Politik 1 (1936), p. 249; repr. Benesch, Collected Writings, ed. Eva Benesch, vol. 3, London, 1972, pp. 393–94, fig. 416.
- Charles L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1936, p. 52, no. 185.
- Karl Oettinger, Hans von Tübingen und seine Schule, Berlin, 1938, pp. 112–13. Worcester Collction 1938, p. 31, no. 27, pl. 19.
- Niko-laus Csánky, “Das Bartfelder Madonnen-bild: Entwicklungsge-schichtliche Studie,” Az országos Magyar Szépmüvészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 10 (1940), p. 70.
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