Descent from the Cross, ca. 1500 or 1520

  • Master of the Embroidered Foliage, Netherlandish

Oil on oak panel, cradled

  • Unframed: 38 7/16 × 31 5/8 inches (97.6 × 80.3 cm)
  • 44 5/8 × 37 7/8 inches (113.3 × 96.2 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Cracchiolo

2019.18

before 1903, Heinrich Frans Angelo Antoine-Feill, Galerie H. Fr. A. Antoine-Feill (Hamburg, Germany)

May 8–10, 1903, presented at auction (J.M. Heberle, lot 32, Hamburg, Germany). June 1930, Julius Stern (Düsseldorf, Germany). before December 13, 1978, private collection H. Brandts (Mönchengladbach, Germany). before December 13, 1978, Dowager Marchioness of Tweeddale, likely Marjorie Helen Wagg (1899–1977)

December 13, 1978, consigned to auction (Sotheby’s, 13 December, 1978, London, England), lot 72. July 10, 1987, sold at auction (Christie’s, London, England), lot 54

July 1987–1989, Ambassador J. William Middendorf II [b. 1924] (Washington, D.C., USA)

1989–2000, Hester Diamond [b. 1928] (New York, New York, USA)

2000–2004, private collection (Santiago, Chile)

2004, Otto Naumann Gallery (?) (New York, New York, USA)

2005, Colnaghi (Bernheimer) Gallery (London, England and Munich, Germany)

2005–2019, private collection of Mr. And Mrs. Raymond Cracchiolo (Detroit, Michigan, USA) on loan to the DIA (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

2019-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

"General Notes," Burlington Gazette 1, no. 2 (May 1903): 61-67, p. 65. [as by a Brabant master under the influence of Roger De la Pasture and Dirk Bouts] Katalog der Ausgewählten und Reichhaltigen Galerie Alter Meister aus dem Nachlasse des Rechtsanwalt Herrn Dr. Heinrich Franz Angelo Antoine-Feill zu Hamburg. Sales cat., J.M. Heberle. Cologne, 1903, pp. 10-11, no. 32 (ill.). The Frick Collection: An Illustrated Catalogue, vol. 1. New York, 1968, p. 166. [as a copyist of Gerard David, in the collection of H. Brandts, Mönchen-Gladbach, Germany] Important Old Master Pictures. Sales cat., Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. London, December 13, 1978, pp. 76, no. 72 (ill.). Important Old Master Pictures. Sales cat., Christie, Manson & Woods. London, July 10, 1987, pp. 72-73, no. 54 (ill.). [as by Circle of Gerard David] Miegroet, Hans J Van. Gerard David. Antwerp, 1989, p. 285. [see no. 15, as a copy by to a follower of [Gerard] David (attributed to) in the collection of H. Brandts, Mönchengladbach, Germany] Adam, Georgina. "Report: The European Fine Art Fair, Despite the absence of Sheikh Saud, sales were excellent." The Art Newspaper 14, no. 157 (April 2005): p. 57 (ill.). Le Maître au Feuillage brodé: Primitifs flamands. Secrets d'ateliers. Exh. cat., Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille. Paris, 2005, pp. 49-50, 100-101, cat. 13 (ill.). Campbell, Lorne. "Book Review: Primitifs flamnds. Le Maître au Feuillage Brodé: Secrets d'ateliers by Florence Gombert and Didier Martens." Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1235 (February 2006): 127-128, p. 127.

Master of the Embroidered Foliage, Descent from the Cross, ca. 1500 or 1520, oil on oak panel, cradled. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Cracchiolo, 2019.18.