Miniature Altarpiece: Crucifixion

Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
c. 1500
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Object Number
KMS5532
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner

Dimensions

Overall height x width: 14.1 × 11.6 cm (5 9/16 × 4 9/16 in.)

Description

Triptych with Passion scenes - centre: Crucifixion; Left wing: Carrying of the Cross; Right wing: Descent from the Cross; Exterior left wing: Holy Kinship; Exterior right wing: St. Bavo (?); Lower centre: Entombment; Left wing; kneeling male donor with coat of arms; Right wing: female donor with coat of arms

Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription
Latin inscriptions are carved below the scenes:

se quere me [left wing]

attendite et videte si est dolor sicut domini [centre] [Lamentations 1:12]

consumatum est [right wing]

Ihesus [lower left wing]

Maria [lower right wing]

[source: SMK website]
Markings
Unidentified coats of arms above each donor

Published References

Bente Gundestrub, The Royal Danish Kunstkammer 1737 (Copenhagen, 1991, p 309, 768/367)

Catalogue Raisonné

Romanelli 8

Provenance

Provenance
In the Royal Treasury since 1673; Transferred to Cabinet of Curiousities in 1826; Transferred to Royal Academy of Arts in 1886; Entered Collections of the Statens Museum for Kunst in 1905
Previous Owner(s)
Royal Treasury
Royal Academy of Arts
Collections of the Statens Museum for Kunst

Subjects

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