Pietà

Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1490-1530
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number
17.190.458a
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner

Dimensions

Overall height x width x depth x diameter: 3.6 × 3.3 × 1 × 3.3 cm (1 7/16 × 1 5/16 × 3/8 × 1 5/16 in.)

Description

Pietà with saints John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene

Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription
Carved around Pieta:

d(omi)ne ie(s)u xre(Christe) accipe spi(rit)u(m) meu(m)

[source: Met site]

Published References

Émile Molinier. Collection Charles Mannheim: Objets d'Art. Paris, 1898. no. 26, pp. 13-14; 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. 45, pp. 68-69, pl. XXVII.; Karl Dingelstedt, Schmitt, Otto, ed. "Betnuß." Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte 2 (1948). p. 373.

Catalogue Raisonné

Romanelli 35

Provenance

Provenance
M. Charles Mannheim, Paris; J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York (until 1917)
Previous Owner(s)
M. Charles Mannheim
J. Pierpont Morgan

Subjects

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