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The Crucifixion
The Crucifixion

The Crucifixion

ArtistCircle of Hans Memling German, South Netherlandish, circa 1430/1440–1494
Datecirca 1480
MediumOil on oak panel
Dimensions17 3/4 x 11 in. (45.1 x 27.9 cm)
Frame: 21 3/16 x 15 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (53.8 x 39.4 x 5.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.102
On View
On view
ProvenanceCreated Flanders [present day Belgium], ca. 1480. Gerghes family or van Grimbergen family, Brabant, Netherlands, 15th century; Barbo family, Venice, 15th century. Giovanni Albarelli, Verona, Italy, by 1815. Baron de Schickler (1828–1919), Paris; private collection, England, by 1937; [E. and A. Silberman, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1952.
Published ReferencesPortraits, Figures, and Landscapes (exhibition catalogue) (Palm Beach: The Society of the Four Arts, 1951), cat. no. 28.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 121, illus. (b-w).

C[harles] W. S[tanford], "Easter," North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar of Art Events 3, no. 7 (April 1960), discussed and illus. (b-w) unnumbered page.

The N.C. Churchman (February 1961), illus. cover.

Raleigh: The News and Observer (April 17, 1965), illus.

Stanley Ferber, "The Armorial Device in Memling's Christ on the Cross," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6 nos. 2 & 3 (Winter-Spring 1966), 17-20, illus. (b-w) 16, detail (b-w) 17.

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 20, illus. (color) 21.

M[ax] J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, Vol. 6, part 2 (Leyden: 1971), 114 add. 274, pl. 255.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 128.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 108.
Exhibition HistoryBruges, Belgium, Stedelijk Museum, "Memling Tentoonstelling," 1939, no. 16.

Palm Beach, FL, The Society of the Four Arts, "Portraits, Figures and Landscapes," 1951, cat. no. 28.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 20, illus. (color) 21.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Miracle on Morgan Street: The Foundations of the NCMA, 1946–1960,” September 16, 2020–April 11, 2021.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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