drawing
- Museum number
- 1997,0712.10
- Description
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Christ shown to the people. c.1525
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1525 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 230 millimetres
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Width: 230 millimetres (roundel)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Lit: R. Schilling (ed) 'Die von Edmund Schilling gesammelten Zeichnungen', published privately, Edgware, 1982, p.61, no.23; J. Rowlands 'German Drawings from a private collection', exh.cat London and Nuremberg, 1984, p.19, no. 12; B. Butts and L. Hendrix, 'Painting on Light', exh. cat. J.Paul Getty Museum and St Louis Art Museum, 2000-2001, no. 66
This is one of several designs for a series of round glass-paintings of the Passion; the largest surviving group of the designs is in the National Museum, Stockholm. A glass roundel related to this sheet is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (inv. no. 11.93.10; 'Painting on Light', no. 67), and is one of only two contemporary pieces of glass after the series known to have survived. See also BM. inv.nos. 1920,0420. 2 and 3 for further designs related to the series.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1984 Feb-Sep, London, Washington and Nuremberg, German Drawings, no.12.
1997/8 Sep-Jan BM Schilling
2000 Jul-Sep, Getty, LA, 'Painting on Light'
2000/01 Nov-Jan, St. Louis AM, 'Painting on Light'
- Acquisition date
- 1997
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1997,0712.10
