Master of Georg Muehlich's Meisterlin Chronicle
The Crucifixion

CultureGerman
Titles
  • The Crucifixion
Datec. 1465–1470
PlaceAugsburg, Germany
MediumTempera and oil on wood
Dimensions28 3/4 × 19 7/16 in. (73 × 49.5 cm)
frame: 32 × 22 3/4 in. (81.3 × 57.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by an anonymous donor in memory of James Chillman, Jr.
Object number72.32
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
204 Tatkon Gallery
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ProvenanceSchaeffer Galleries, New York, sold to the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, May 17-18, 1972, lot 72
Exhibition HistoryPaintings by Old Masters, San Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts, 1920, pl. facing p.17

German Art, Germanic Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1936

San Francisco Museum of Art, March 1938, no. 6; Los Angeles, Museum, April 1938, no. 6; San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor, Summer 1938

Old Master Paintings, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, July - September 1940; Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX, December 1940

A Permanent Heritage: Major Works from the Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 23, 1980 - January 4, 1981

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