Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1500-1525
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1937.874, The Art Institute of Chicago
Object Number
1937.874
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Medallion: 43mm × 15.4mm (4.3 × 1.5 cm) [Thickness x Diameter]
Description
Crucifixion with the Virgin swooning supported by St. John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene in the left foreground
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Latin inscription carved around scene:
O crux ave spes unica hoc passionis tempore auge piis (justitiam reisque)? dona veniam [source: stanza 8 of Good Friday hymn, Vexilla Regis]
[source: Romanelli]
[O Cross! all hail! sole hope, abide
With us now in this Passion-tide:
New grace in pious hearts implant,
And pardon to the guilty grant.]
O crux ave spes unica hoc passionis tempore auge piis (justitiam reisque)? dona veniam [source: stanza 8 of Good Friday hymn, Vexilla Regis]
[source: Romanelli]
[O Cross! all hail! sole hope, abide
With us now in this Passion-tide:
New grace in pious hearts implant,
And pardon to the guilty grant.]
Published References
Charles Mannheim, Catalogue des objets d’art et de haute curiosités, antiques, du moyen-âge à la renaissance, composant l’importante et précieuse collection Spitzer, dont la vente publique aura lieu à Paris (Paris: Imprimerie de l’Art, 1893) no. 2126; Jaap Leeuwenberg, De gebedsnoot van Eewert Jansz van Bleiswick en andere werken van Adam Dirksz (Ghent: Miscellanea Jozef Duverger, Bijdragen tot de Kunstgeschiedenis der Nederlanden II, 1968: 620;
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 74
Provenance
Provenance
Frédéric Spitzer Collection, Paris; acquired by Durand-Ruel as agent for Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago; bequeathed by Ryerson's widow to Art Institue of Chicago, 1937
Previous Owner(s)
Frédéric Spitzer
Martin A. Ryerson