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The Crucifixion

CultureEnglish
Date1450-1500
MediumAlabaster with pigment
DimensionsOverall: 23 3/4 × 10 3/4 inches (60.33 × 27.31 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number43-31
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 106
Collections
Exhibition History

Anatomy and Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 8-June 5, 1960, no. 125, as Crucifixion.

Provenance
With Altounian-Lorbet Antiquaires, Mâcon, France, by September 23, 1938;

 

Purchased from Altounian-Lorbet Antiquaires by Brummer Gallery, Paris and New York, stock no. P15106, September 23, 1938-December 13, 1943 [1];

 

Purchased from Brummer Gallery, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1943.

 

NOTES:

 

[1] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Library and Archives, Brummer Gallery Records, Gothic and Renaissance marbles, stones, and alabaster, Object inventory card number P15098.

Published References

Augusta S. Travender, “Mediaeval English Alabasters in American Museums,” an offprint from Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies 30, no. 1 (January 1955): 70, (repro.), as Crucifixion with Two Thieves.

“Anatomy and Art,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) vol. 3, no. 1 (May-June 1960): 36, as Crucifixion.

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 140, (repro.), as The Crucifixion.

Dorothy Gillerman, Gothic Sculpture in America, vol. 2, The Museums of the Midwest (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2001), 205-06, (repro.), as Crucifixion.

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 44, (repro.), as The Crucifixion.

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