Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Saint John the Evangelist
Jean Hey (Master of Moulins; Netherlandish, active in France, c. 1480-c.1504)
c. 1500
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
Scientific imaging techniques, which can reveal information that lies below or has been removed from the surface layers of a painting, have determined that Saint John the Evangelist and the Mourning Virgin were once part of the same painting, Christ Carrying the Cross. Infrared reflectography revealed drawn strokes of Christ’s curling hair at the lower right of the Saint John panel. X-radiography shows that the top of the cross, still visible in the Saint John panel, occupied the lower left of Mourning Virgin before being scraped away and overpainted. The original work may have been repurposed to create multiple paintings of single, expressive devotional figures.
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Original size
- 27.3 × 20 cm (10 3/4 × 7 7/8 in.)
Museum record · 1 owner · 2 exhibitions
Provenance
- M. Guggenheim, Venice, by 1892 according to receipt in Art Institute Archives; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, June 1892; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.
Exhibitions
- Paris, Galeries nationales, Grand Palais, France 1500: entre Moyen Age et Renaissance, 2010–11.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France, Feb. 26-May 30, 2011.
