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The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and a Donor
Hans Pleydenwurff (German, c. 1425–1472)

Title

The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and a Donor

Artist

Hans Pleydenwurff (German, c. 1425–1472)

Date

c. 1460–70

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

51 3/4 × 31 in. (131.4 × 78.7 cm)

Classification

Painting

Credit Line

Museum purchase with funds from the Berchel H. and Alice Dale Harper Estate

Object Number

2017.1

On View

On view

Provenance

The Princely House of Liechtenstein, Garden Palace at Rossau by 1873, as attributed to an unknown Netherlandish artist [1].
Possibly acquired by Prince Johann II (1840–1929);
At Gaming, Styria, February–October, 1941, when moved to Vienna, until 1945, when moved to Schloss Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 1945–2008 [2];
Purchased at the Princely Collection sale, Important Old Master & British Pictures Days Sale Including Property from the Collection of the Princely House of Liechtenstein, Christie’s, London, July 9, 2008, lot 114, as by a follower of Konrad Witz, by Sam Fogg, London;
Purchased from Sam Fogg by a private collector, United States, 2009–2016;
Consigned from a private collection to Ben Elwes Fine Art, London, until April 8, 2016;
Purchased from Ben Elwes Fine Art by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 2016.

[1] Recorded in J. Falke, Katalog der fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais de Rossau zu Wein (Vienna, 1873), no. 1033, 118, as Netherlandish, fifteenth century; J. Falke, Katalog der fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais de Rossau zu Wein (Vienna, 1885), no. 728, 97, as Netherlandish, fifteenth century.

[2] During the war years, Gustav Wilhelm, director of the Princely Collections of Liechtenstein, moved artworks from the collection to various storage depots in remote locations, including a former Carthusian monastery called Gaming, located in Styria, in lower Austria. Toward the end of the war, Wilhelm brought much of the Princely Collections over the Liechtenstein border to Schloss Vaduz. See Gustav Wilhelm, The Journey of the Liechtenstein Gallery from Vienna to Vaduz, ed. Johann Kräfter (Munich: Prestel, 2005).

Exhibition History

Van Eyck to Dürer: The Influence of Early Netherlandish Painting on European Art, 1430–1530, Groeningemuseum, Bruges, October 29, 2010–January 30, 2011, no. 213.

Late Medieval Panel Paintings: Materials, Methods, Meanings, Sam Fogg, London, 2011, no. 2.

Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.

Published References

J. Falke, Katalog der fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais de Rossau zu Wein (Vienna, 1873), no. 1033, 118, as Netherlandish, fifteenth century.

J. Falke, Katalog der fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais de Rossau zu Wein (Vienna, 1885), no. 728, 97, as Netherlandish, fifteenth century.

W. Suida, Moderner Cicerone (Stuttgart, 1904), vol. 2, 118.

A. Kronfeld, Führer durch die Fürstlich Liechtensteinsche Gemälsegalerie in Wien (Vienna, 1931), no. 728, 143, as Netherlandish, fifteenth century.

Till Holger Borchert, Van Eyck to Dürer: The Influence of Early Netherlandish Painting on European Art, 1430–1530, exh. cat. (London: Thams & Hudson, 2011), 398.

Susie Nash, Late Medieval Panel Paintings: Materials, Methods, Meanings, exh. cat. (London: Sam Fogg, 2011), 22–37.

Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 26, 42–43, (repro.).