Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Christus und die Ehebrecherin (Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultry)

Christus und die Ehebrecherin (Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultry)

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Christus und die Ehebrecherin (Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultry)
Christus und die Ehebrecherin (Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultry)
CultureGerman
Titles
  • Christus und die Ehebrecherin (Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultry)
  • from the portfolio 9 Holzschnitte von Schmidt-Rottluff (Nine Woodcuts by Schmidt-Rottluff)
Date1918
MediumWoodcut on cream wove paper, from the edition of 75
DimensionsBlock: 15 1/2 × 19 5/8 in. (39.4 × 49.8 cm)
Sheet: 18 13/16 × 26 in. (47.8 × 66 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Craig S. Calvert
Object number2020.297
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Provenance[Swann Galleries, New York, Sale 2357, 19th & 20th Century Prints and Drawings, September 23, 2014, lot 613]; sold to Craig S. Calvert, September 23, 2014; Collection of Craig S. Calvert, 2014-2020; given to MFAH, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in graphite, below block, lower left: 1813
Recto: Signed in graphite, below block, lower right: S. Rottluff [cursive]
Catalogue raisonnéSchapire 215

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