Christ on the Cross
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Anatomy and Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 8-June 5, 1960, no. 70, as Crucifixion.
This small Crucifixion is painted directly onto three pieces of ebony made up to form a cross. Although the elongated proportions of Christ’s figure are typical of El Greco, there is a dryness in the handling that suggests the hand of an assistant. Small Crucifixes like this were portable and therefore suited for private devotion or travel. The painted images could also serve as models from which customers could select paintings on a larger scale.
M. Gallego, Granada, Spain;
Joachim Carvallo (1869-1936), Château de Villandry, France;
Purchased, through Maxwell Blake, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 36, (repro.).
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 36, (repro.).
Town, January 9, 1948, 7, (repro.)
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 52, (repro.).
Jose Camon Aznar, Domenico Greco, vol. 2 (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1950), 1453, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 90, (repro.).
“Anatomy & Art,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 3, no. 1 (Summer 1960): 22, as Crucifixion.
Harold E. Wethey, El Greco and His School, vol. 2 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962), no. X-62, p. 179, as Christ on the Cross (Type IV).
Marilyn Stokstad, “Spanish Art from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 500, (repro.), as Crucifix [repr. in Denys Sutton, ed., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City (London: Apollo Magazine, 1972), 500].
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 107, (repro.).
