Christ on the Cross (recto), Studies of Heads and a Standing Figure (verso), between 1505 and 1507

  • German
  • Hans Baldung Grien, German, 1484-1545

Pen and brown ink (recto), pen and brown and black ink (verso) on cream laid paper

  • Sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 inches (28.9 × 20.3 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund

50.73

Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, on recto at left near Christ's side: [indecipherable fragment of name or word]

unknown dealer, possibly Italy. unknown dealer, possibly London, England. P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. (London, England)

1950-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Newberry, John S. Jr. "A Drawing by Hans Baldung Grien." Bulletin of the DIA 30, 3-4 (1950-51): pp. 59-60 [as HBG]. Uhr, H. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 16-17, no. 1 (ill.). Dunbar, Burton, L., Robert Munman, and Edward Olszewski, ed. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Northern European Drawings. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2012, pp. 132-133, cat. 81 (ill.).

German; after Hans Baldung Grien, Christ on the Cross (recto), Studies of Heads and a Standing Figure (verso), between 1505 and 1507, pen and brown ink (recto), pen and brown and black ink (verso) on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund, 50.73.