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Crucifixion

Jan Speckaert  (Netherlandish, born ca. 1540 Brussels, died 1577 Rome)

Date:
before 1577
Medium:
Pen and brown and brownish-black iron gall inks, brush and iron ink washes, heightened with white
Dimensions:
16-1/4 x 10-3/8 in. (41.3 x 26.4 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Rogers and Harris Brisbane Dick Funds, Gifts of Ernest Shapiro and family, Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim, and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, and Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, by exchange, and funds from various donors, 1999
Accession Number:
1999.85
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Marking: At lower left corner, blind stamp of Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445)

  • Provenance

    Benjamin West (American, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738–1820 London); Sir Thomas Lawrence (British, Bristol 1769–1830 London); Charles F. Ramus (Denver)acquired in 1936; Butterfield and Butterfield (San Francisco), November 12, 1998, lot 6523; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich

  • References

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700 Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2012, p. 143, under note 8 (entry written by Stijn Alsteens).

    Butterfield and Butterfield European Paintings [November 12, 1998]. 1998, cat. no. 6523, ill.



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