BR64.6: Deposition from the Cross
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR64.6
- People
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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
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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
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[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
- Permissions
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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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