The Crucifixion of Christ

before 1577

Not on view

Hans Speckaert was one of several Northern Mannerist painters working in Rome in the sixteenth century. His close study of the art of Michelangelo, Raphael, and other Italian Renaissance masters informs the muscular, monumental figures in this Crucifixion. Two other drawings of this subject made by Speckaert, perhaps in preparation for a painting, are more sedate. Speckaert's art strongly influenced his Northern contemporaries, as can be seen, in particular, in the drawings of Bartholomeus Spranger, Hans von Aachen, and Karel van Mander.

Artwork Details

Title: The Crucifixion of Christ
Artist: Hans Speckaert (Netherlandish, Brussels ca. 1540–1577 Rome)
Date: before 1577
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache on blue paper
Dimensions: 16-1/4 x 10-3/8 in. (41.3 x 26.4 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Purchase, Rogers and Harris Brisbane Dick Funds, Gifts of Ernest Shapiro and family, Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim, and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, and Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, by exchange, and funds from various donors, 1999
Object Number: 1999.85
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Circumcision in the Temple, Hans Speckaert Netherlandish, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, heightened with white — Circumcision in the Temple
Hans Speckaert
before 1577

Fortitude and Justice, Hans Speckaert Netherlandish, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash — Fortitude and Justice
Hans Speckaert
before 1577

Still Life with Flowers, a Snail and Insects, Joris Hoefnagel Netherlandish, Watercolor, gouache, and shell gold on vellum — Still Life with Flowers, a Snail and Insects
Joris Hoefnagel
1589

Otto, Count of Nassau and his Wife Adelheid van Vianen, Bernard van Orley Netherlandish, Pen and brown ink, watercolor over black chalk (recto); tracing in black chalk of the figures on the recto (verso) — Otto, Count of Nassau and his Wife Adelheid van Vianen
Bernard van Orley
1530–35

Diana and Actaeon, Bartholomeus Spranger Netherlandish, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, white heightening, over traces of black chalk, on paper washed blue and pink — Diana and Actaeon
Bartholomeus Spranger
ca. 1580–85

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