Inv. B 13
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angel holding the sun and the moon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Witte 1912: Rhineland, late 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Missing: left border (probably including the traces of hinges; repaired with ivory), upper border.
Central hole in the upper part of the panel and smaller hole in the right hand side trefoil.
Very damaged surface. Stain above Christ's head.
Comments
The left side of the panel is a later replacement and probably featured the hinges: this panel is likely to have been the right wing of a diptych.
Provenance
Collection of Alexander Schnütgen (b. 1843, d. 1918), who had bought it from an art dealer in Aachen(Schnütgen donated his collection to the city of Cologne in 1906 and the first Schnütgen Museum opened in 1910).
Bibliography
F. Witte, Die Skulpturen der Sammlung Schnütgen in Cöln (Berlin, 1912), p. 93, pl. 83, no. 7.
Signa Tau. Grubenschmelzplatte eines typologischen Kreuzes, exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart, Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart (Kulturstiftung der Länder - Patrimonia 132, no. 50), 2000.
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