The Descent from the Cross
Unknown Netherlandish, Netherlandish
After Rogier van der Weyden, Netherlandish, 1399 - 1464
about 1500
Oil on panel
Overall: 22 1/2 × 27 1/4 in. (57.2 × 69.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund and the Jean and Adolph Weil Jr. 1935 Fund
2025.44
Geography
Place Made: Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Triptych
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Domini / Jhesu Criste / fili Dei / vivi pone / Passionem / Crucem et / mortem tuam / Inter / iudicium / tuum Et / animam / Meam / nunc et / In hora / mortis mee / et semper (left wing) Largiri / digneris / vivis Miseri / cordiam et graciam / defunctis / veniam Et / Requiem / ecclesie tue / pacem et / concordiam / et nobis / peccatoribus / vitam et / Gloriam / sempiternam / Amen (right wing)
Exhibition History
Dordrecht, Museum Mr Simon van Gijn, Verzameling Kleiweg de Zwaan-Vellema, schilderijen, sculpturen en kunstvoorwerpen van de 12e tot en met de 16e eeuw, 8 May– 31 October 1971, no. 4.
Publication History
S. Reinach, "A Lost Picture by Rogier van der Weyden," Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 43, no. 248 (1923): 214-21 at p. 216, no. VIII, plate 11-H
E. Salin, "Copies ou variations anciennes d’une Oeuvre perdue de Rogier van der Weyden," Gazette des Beaux Arts 14 (1935):15-26 at pp. 25-26
N. N. Nikulin, The Hermitage. Catalogue of Western European Painting. Netherlandish Painting. Fifteenth and Sixtenth Centuries (Moscow, 1987), p. 209, under cat.no. 114
Provenance
Monsignor Louis Belmas (1757-1841), Bishop of Cambrai, by whom donated to Dailliez 1838 (according to a handwritten note attached on the back of the central panel); Anon. Sale, Fredrik Muller Amsterdam, 5-8 June 1916, lot 78; with D.A. Hoogendijk, Amsterdam, from whom acquired by Professor J.P. Kleiweg de Zwaan (1875-1971); and thence by descent to the present owners, Amsterdam, from whom acquired by the present collection, 2025.
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