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.).