print
- Museum number
- 1845,0825.635
- Description
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The Mocking of Christ; in the centre Christ is sitting on a throne, blindfolded and wearing a crown of thorns, he holds a cane in his right hand and a globe in his left, surrounded by a crowd of mocking soldiers and Jews holding swords, spears and trumpets; in the foreground, five men are kneeling before Christ. 1490-1500
Engraving
- Production date
- 1490-1500 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 225 millimetres
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Width: 169 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The print belongs to a series of fifteen engravings of the 'Life of the Virgin and Christ' executed in a style called by Hind the 'Broad Manner' and recently attributed to Francesco Rosselli; for a discussion of this group see the entry for Hind, B.I.1.II (1870-6-25-1048).
The present engraving is probably the second, reworked state of the print. Examples of the first state are in Hamburg (hand-coloured and mounted on canvas), Vienna (original and falsified impressions with pen-and-ink additions), in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and in the Rothschild collection (Paris, Louvre). The same composition is shown in a pen and ink drawing in the Albertina,Vienna (A. Stix and L. Fröhlich-Bum, 'Bescreibender Katalog der Handzeichnungen in der Graphischen Sammlung Albertina, 3', Vienna, 1932, no. 17) variously attributed to an anonymous Florentine craftsman of the mid-fifteenth century (Stix and Fröhlich-Bum) and to Benozzo Gozzoli or his school (Berenson). On the r margin the Vienna drawing shows the entire body of the man with an arm outstretched, cropped at the border in the engraving. It is questionable whether the drawing is a study for the print (bearing in mind its quality appears somewhat inferior) or a copy after it.
For a discussion of the issue see Mark J. Zucker, 'The Illustrated Bartsch, Commentary', vol. 24, part 2, 1994, p. 18, no. 008).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1845
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1845,0825.635