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Christ Carried to Heaven by Angels
Hans Baldung (Grien) (German, 1484 or 1485–1545)
about 1515–17
Medium/Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
Other (woodcut border): 22.3 x 1.3 cm (8 3/4 x 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 22.7 x 15.5 cm (8 15/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 22.7 x 15.5 cm (8 15/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Anna Mitchell Richards Fund
Accession Number37.1298
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 043; Curjel 44; Geisberg 82; Hollstein 56; Mende 39; Yale 50
Signed
Signed in block, lower left: HBG [monogram]
Marks
No watermark; verso, collector's stamp in black: F&H [Falkeisen and Huber; Lugt 1008]; MFA stamp with old accession number in graphite: 33778; in graphite: B. 43
ProvenanceProbably before 1812, Theodor Falkeisen (b. 1768 - d. 1814) and Johann Friedrich Huber (b. 1766 - d. 1832), Basel (Lugt 1008). Richard H. Zinser (dealer; b. 1884 - d. 1984; Lugt 5581), Forest Hills, New York; 1937, sold by Zinser to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1937)