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Title:Crucifixion
Date:ca. 1325–50
Geography:Made in Constance
Culture:German
Medium:Linen warp; wool wefts, with the addition of wool and silk embroidery
Dimensions:Overall: 32 x 68in. (81.3 x 172.7cm) Framed: 34 x 69 1/4 x 2 1/2in. (86.4 x 175.9 x 6.4cm)
Classification:Textiles-Tapestries
Credit Line:Purchase, Francis L. Leland Fund and Mitchell Samuels Gift, 1916
Object Number:16.90
Georges Hoentschel (French)(sold 1911); J. Pierpont Morgan (American), London and New York (from 1911); [ P. W. French & Co., New York (sold 1916)]
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. "The Pierpont Morgan Treasures. Loan exhibition in honor of the Junius Spencer Morgan Memorial," November 10, 1960–December 18, 1960.
Hartford, Conn. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. "Morgan: Mind of the Collector," September 23–December 31, 2017.
Guiffrey, Jules. Les tapisseries du XIIe à la fin du XVIe siècle. Histoire générale des arts appliqués à l'industrie, Vol. 6. Paris: E. Levy, 1911. p. 10, fig. 6.
Pératé, André. Collections Georges Hoentschel: Ivoires, orfèvrerie religieuse, pierres. Vol. 2. Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1911. no. 50, pl. XLIV.
"J. P. Morgan to Bring Hoentschel Treasures Here." The New York Times (February 11, 1912). p. 13, ill.
Ricci, Seymour de, ed. Description d'une série de tapisseries gothiques appartenant à M. J. Pierpont Morgan. Exposées au bénéfice de la Société des Amis du Louvre à la Galerie J. Seligmann. Paris: Jacques Seligmann & Co., 1912. p. 6.
Guide to the Loan Exhibition of the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1914. p. 27, ill.
Vitry, Paul. "Les collections Pierpont Morgan." Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 4th ser., 11, no. 5 (May 1914). p. 434.
"The Morgan Tapestries: Entire Collection of Forty Pieces in Metropolitan Museum Sold to P.W French & Co.." Boston Evening Transcript (April 11, 1916).
Friedley, Durr. "The Morgan Tapestries." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 11, no. 6 (June 1916). p. 130.
Milliken, William M. "A Late Thirteenth-Century French Tapestry." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 11, no. 7 (July 1916). pp. 146–47.
"The Morgan Tapestries Dispersed." The Upholsterer and Interior Decorator 55, no. 4 (April 15, 1916). p. 83.
Meyer-Riefstahl, R. "Three Fragments of the Earliest French Tapestry." Art in America 5, no. 3 (April 1917). pp. 150–55, ill.
Schmitz, Hermann. Bildteppiche: Geschichte der Gobelinwirkerei. Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1919. p. 64.
Hunter, George Leland. The Practical Book of Tapestries. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1925. pp. 68–69, pl. IV–f.
Kurth, Betty. Die deutschen Bildteppiche des Mittelalters. Vol. 1. Vienna: A. Schroll & Co., 1926. pp. 80–81, 211.
Kurth, Betty. Die deutschen Bildteppiche des Mittelalters. Vol. 2. Vienna: A. Schroll & Co., 1926. pl. 23a.
Migeon, Gaston. Les Arts du Tissu. Manuels d'histoire de l'art. Revised ed. Paris: Henri Laurens, 1929. pp. 206–7, ill.
Göbel, Heinrich. Wandteppiche. 3. Teil, Die germanischen und slawischen Länder. Vol. 1. Berlin: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1933. pp. 63–64, fig. 41.
Ackerman, Phyllis. "Review: 'Wandteppiche, III, Die germanischen und slavischen Länder, Vol. I [...]' by Heinrich Göbel." The Art Bulletin 16, no. 2 (June 1934). p. 222.
Rorimer, James J. Mediaeval Tapestries: A Picture Book. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1947. p. [2], ill.
Rorimer, James J., and William Holmes Forsyth. "The Medieval Galleries." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 12, no. 6 (February 1954). p. 135.
Cunningham, C. C., ed. The Pierpont Morgan Treasures: Loan Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Junius Spencer Morgan Memorial. Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1960. no. 14, p. 9, pl. III.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Guide to the Collections: Medieval Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1962. fig. 48.
Heinz, Dora. Europäische Wandteppiche: Ein Handbuch für Sammler und Liebhaber. Volume 1: Von den Anfängen der Bildwerkerei bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts. Bibliothek für Kunst- und Antiquitätenfreunde, Vol. 37. Brunswick: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1963. p. 39, fig. 20.
Viale Ferrero, Mercedes. "Tapestry and Carpets: I. Tapestry." In Encyclopedia of World Art. Vol. 13. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. col. 915, pl. 395.
Beeson, Nora B., ed. Guide to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972. no. 35, pp. 218–19.
Hibbard, Howard. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harper & Row, 1980. pp. 165, 168, fig. 312.
Nagy, Rebecca Martin. "A Fourteenth-Century German Tapestry of the Crucifixion." Metropolitan Museum Journal 16 (1981). pp. 75–85, fig. 1–2, 4.
Shepard, Mary B. Europe in the Middle Ages, edited by Charles T. Little, and Timothy B. Husband. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. pp. 118–19, pl. 110.
Cavallo, Adolfo S. Medieval Tapestries in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. no. 54, pp. 13, 617–24, fig. 176.
Brennan, Christine E. "Hoentschel's Gothic Importance." In Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, edited by Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide, Ulrich Leben, and Deborah L. Krohn. New York: Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, 2013. p. 154, fig. 5.9.
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