Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1500-1525
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number
17.190.474a, b
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall Open: 124mm × 96mm × 32mm × 320mm × 57mm (12.4 × 9.6 × 3.2 × 32 × 5.7 cm)
Description
Polyptych: upper scene: Crucifixion; lower scene: Christ before Pilate with the Flagellation in the background; Left wing: Carrying of the Cross; Right wing: Descent from the Cross, the Entombment; Outer wings: Christ in Gethsemane, Arrest of Christ; Medallion: Betrayal of Christ with Peter slicing off Malchus's ear in the foreground
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions:
ATTENDITE ET VIDETE SI EST DOLOR SICVT DOLOR [Renaissance capitals around circumference of one outer hemisphere]
LEVEMVS CORDA NOSTRA CVM MANIBVS AD D[OMI]N[U]M IN C[O]E[LOS] J[EREMIAS] C[A[P[UT] L[V] [source: Lamentations 1:12 and 3:41 - Renaissance capitals around circumference of one outer hemisphere]
PER PACEM CRISTE TRHIT HIIS TE PRODITOR ISTE [Gothic letters on removable medallion]
NOS PILATVS CONDEMPNAMVS IESVM FLAGELLANDVM IN MONTE CALVARIO CRVCIFIGI ET IN ALTVM ELEVARI [Gothic letters around lower inner scene]
O CRVX AVE SPE[S] VIN[ICA] HOC PASSIONIS TEMPORE AVGE PIIS IVSTICIAM REIS [Gothic letters around upper inner scene - source: hymn Vexilla Regis]
[source: Met site]
ATTENDITE ET VIDETE SI EST DOLOR SICVT DOLOR [Renaissance capitals around circumference of one outer hemisphere]
LEVEMVS CORDA NOSTRA CVM MANIBVS AD D[OMI]N[U]M IN C[O]E[LOS] J[EREMIAS] C[A[P[UT] L[V] [source: Lamentations 1:12 and 3:41 - Renaissance capitals around circumference of one outer hemisphere]
PER PACEM CRISTE TRHIT HIIS TE PRODITOR ISTE [Gothic letters on removable medallion]
NOS PILATVS CONDEMPNAMVS IESVM FLAGELLANDVM IN MONTE CALVARIO CRVCIFIGI ET IN ALTVM ELEVARI [Gothic letters around lower inner scene]
O CRVX AVE SPE[S] VIN[ICA] HOC PASSIONIS TEMPORE AVGE PIIS IVSTICIAM REIS [Gothic letters around upper inner scene - source: hymn Vexilla Regis]
[source: Met site]
Published References
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. 94, 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. 40, 41, pp. 64-65, pl. XXIV.; Kurt Dingelstedt, “Betnuss” Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte I Edited by Otto Schmitt (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1948): pp. 377-378; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. The life of Christ : A loan exhibition of works of art illustrating episodes in the life of Christ, March 12 to April 25, 1948. Hartford, CT, 1948. no. 190, p. 33
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 20
Provenance
Provenance
Private collection, Cordova; dealer, London; Baron Albert Oppenheim, Cologne (sold 1906); J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York (1906-1917)
Previous Owner(s)
Baron Albert Oppenheim
J. Pierpont Morgan