The Crucifixion, Giovanni da Milano, c. 1360

Identification

Title(s)

The Crucifixion
Christus aan het kruis met de HH. Franciscus, Maria Magdalena, Maria, Johannes en Ignatius van Antiochië

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-4000

Inscriptions / marks

inscription: ‘Amor meus crucifisus est.’

Description

Christus aan het kruis. Onder het kruis staan links de heilige Maria Magdalena en Maria. De heilige Franciscus van Assisi knielt en omhelst het kruis. Rechts staan Johannes en de heilige Ignatius van Antiochië. Twee engelen vangen het bloed van Christus op in kelken. Rechts een banderol met tekst.

Creation

Artist

painter: Giovanni da Milano

Place

Florence

Dating

c. 1360

Material and Technique

Physical features

tempera on panel

Material

panel

Measurements

height 51 cm × width 30.5 cm

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transfer 1960

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; purchased from the dealer J. Böhler, Munich, by Prof. Dr Otto Lanz (1865-1935), Amsterdam, before 1906;{Amsterdam 1906a, p. 12, no. 3, as Agnolo Gaddi; Amsterdam 1934, no. 231; File RMA.} his widow, Anna Theresia Elisabeth Lanz - Willi (1870 - 1954), Amsterdam, 1935; from whom, CHF 2,000,000 and fl. 350,000, with xx other paintings, to Hans Posse (1879-1942), for Adolf Hitler’s Führermuseum, Linz, through the mediation of the dealer N. Katz, 1941;{Van Os 1978, p. 167.} war recuperation, SNK, 15 February 1946 (inv. no. NK 2335);{Provenance from 1934 to 1945 reconstructed by Ekkart et al. 2006; MCCP website, file card no. 3653; the Munich Central Collecting Point Number 3653 is recorded in blue on the reverse of the panel.} on loan from the DRVK to the museum, 1952 (inv. no. SK-C-1424); transferred to the museum, 1960

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

Giovanni da Milano, Luigi Cavadini, Mina Gregori, p. 42-43, cat.nr. 4
Giovanni da Milano : capolavori del gotico fra Lombardia e Toscana, Daniela Parenti, p. 208-209, cat.nr. 18
Punch marks from Giotto to Fra Angelico : attribution, chronology, and workshop relationships in Tuscan panel painting c. 1330-1430, Erling S. Skaug
Aan de oorsprong van de schilderkunst : vroege Italiaanse schilderijen in Nederlands bezit, Hendrik Willem van Os, Rik Vos
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 242-243
The Florentine paintings in Holland, 1300-1500, Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Hendrik Willem van Os
The development of the Italian schools of painting, Charlotte van Marle, Raimond van Marle, dl. 4, p. 238
C. Travi, 'Giovanni da Milano', in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon : Die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker 55, Monaco/Lipsia 2007, p. 42.
M. Gregori, 'Giovanni da Milano', in: EAM 6, Rome 1995, p. 733.
M. Boskovits, 'Notes sur Giovanni de Milano', Revue de l'Art 2 (1971), p. 57.
M. Boskovits, Giovanni da Milano, Florence 1966, p. 13, 37.
A. Marabottini, 'Una Crocifissione di Giovanni da Milano en i soggiorni del pittore in Toscana e in Lombardia', Commentari 16 (1965), p. 31.
Cat.tent. Ausstellung von Werken alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz von Mitgliedern des Kaiser Friedrich Museums Vereins, Berlin (Königlichen Akademie der Künste) 1914, cat.nr. 96.

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