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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR64.6
People
Johann Michael Rottmayr, German (1654 - 1730)
Title
Deposition from the Cross
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
18th century
Culture
Austrian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/222991

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
108.2 x 65.2 cm (42 5/8 x 25 11/16 in.)
frame: 122.5 x 79.5 x 8.5 cm (48 1/4 x 31 5/16 x 3 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[A. S. Drey Gallery, New York, NY (?-1964), sold]; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1964.

Notes:
The painting was purchased along with a certificate of authenticity by Dr. Hermann Voss, Munich, Germany dated July 8, 1963.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in memory of Eda K. Loeb
Accession Year
1964
Object Number
BR64.6
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Patrick J. Kelleher, "College Museum Notes", Art Journal, College Art Association of America (New York, NY, Autumn 1964), vol. 24, no. 1, p. 54, fig. 5
  • Edward A. Maser, German and Austrian Painting of the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat., David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, IL, 1978), pp. 44, cat. no. 29 p. 44, repr. p. 18 as pl. 2
  • Erich Hubala, "Rottmayrs Altarbilder in der Ehemaligen Dorotheenkirche zu Wien", Wiener Jahrbuch fur Kunstgeschichte (Vienna, Austria, 1980), vol. 33, pp. 163-173, pp. 170-172
  • Erich Hubala, Johann Michael Rottmayr, Herold Verlag (Vienna, Austria, 1981), no. G19 p. 182, repr. as pl. 142
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 128, fig. 430, ill. p. 168

Exhibition History

  • German and Austrian Painting of the Eighteenth Century, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 04/20/1978 - 06/11/1978

Verification Level

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