Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1490-1525
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number
17.190.473a
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall: 63mm × 67mm × 42mm (6.3 × 6.7 × 4.2 cm)
Description
The Carrying of the Cross with St. Veronica
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions:
LEVEMVS CORDA NOSTRA CVM MANIBVC AD D[OMI]N[U]M I C[O]EL[OS] [in Renaissance capitals around upper outer hemisphere]
SVSCEPERVNT AVTEM IESVM ET EDVXERVNT ET BAJVLANS SIBI CRVCEM (in Gothic letters around scene - source: Vulgate, St. John xix:16, 17)
[source: Met site]
LEVEMVS CORDA NOSTRA CVM MANIBVC AD D[OMI]N[U]M I C[O]EL[OS] [in Renaissance capitals around upper outer hemisphere]
SVSCEPERVNT AVTEM IESVM ET EDVXERVNT ET BAJVLANS SIBI CRVCEM (in Gothic letters around scene - source: Vulgate, St. John xix:16, 17)
[source: Met site]
Published References
Ellis, Lisa and Suda, Sasha (Eds). (2016). Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures, exhibition catalogue, 5 November 2016 - 22 January 2017. Toronto, ON: Art Gallery of Ontario. [p. 20, 24, 96]
Émile Molinier. Collection du Baron Albert Oppenheim: Tableaux et objects d'art, catalogue précédé d'une introduction. Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1904. no. 93, p. 41, pl. LXII; Williamson, G.C. Catalogue of the Collections of Jewels and Precious Works of Art: the property of J. Pierpont Morgan. London: Chiswick Press, 1910. no. 39, pp. 63-64, pl. XXIII; Tangerman, E. J. Whittling and woodcarving. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1936. p. 254, fig. 386, 387; Kurt Dingelstedt, “Betnuss” Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte I Edited by Otto Schmitt (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1948): pp. 377-378;
Portland Art Museum. Masterworks in Wood. The Christian Tradition : an exhibition, the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, November 12, 1975 through January 4, 1976. Portland, OR, 1976. no. 33
Émile Molinier. Collection du Baron Albert Oppenheim: Tableaux et objects d'art, catalogue précédé d'une introduction. Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1904. no. 93, p. 41, pl. LXII; Williamson, G.C. Catalogue of the Collections of Jewels and Precious Works of Art: the property of J. Pierpont Morgan. London: Chiswick Press, 1910. no. 39, pp. 63-64, pl. XXIII; Tangerman, E. J. Whittling and woodcarving. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1936. p. 254, fig. 386, 387; Kurt Dingelstedt, “Betnuss” Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte I Edited by Otto Schmitt (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1948): pp. 377-378;
Portland Art Museum. Masterworks in Wood. The Christian Tradition : an exhibition, the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, November 12, 1975 through January 4, 1976. Portland, OR, 1976. no. 33
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 26
Provenance
Provenance
Baron Albert Oppenheim, Cologne (sold 1906); J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York (1906-1917)
Previous Owner(s)
Baron Albert Oppenheim
J. Pierpont Morgan