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Triptych with The Lamentation of Christ (center), St. Barbara (left wing), St. Catherine of Alexandria (right wing), The Annunciation (reverse wings)

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Date: c. 1500
Medium: Center: oil on poplar; Wings: oil and gold leaf on poplar panel
Culture: Austria
Department: Medieval Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 515375

From the Cleveland Museum of Art record

The triptych shows an exact representation of Jerusalem. The model is a woodcut by Erhard Reuwich for the publication Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, by Bernhard von Breydenbach, published in Mainz in 1486. This book became a bestseller, reprinted thirteen times over the next three decades. The painter who was active in today’s Slovenia around 1500 adapted this for his depiction of the Lamentation of Christ. The Master of Krainburg was active in the area of today's Slovenia and should therefore be called the Master of Kranj in Slovenian.

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Provenance & credit

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Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
Provenance: Richard von Kaufmann, Berlin, Germany | 1917: (Sale: Cassirer and Helbing, Berlin, 1917, II, lot 122) | Alfred Bum Collection, Brno, Czechoslovakia, by descent to his son, Martin Bum | Martin Bum (changed to Boome), New York, NY | 5 November 1942: (Sale: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 5 November 1942, lot 46) | Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Y. Palitz, New York, NY | Thence By Decent | Richard L. Feigen & Co. | c. 2009-2022: Private Collection, USA, sold through Ben Elwes Fine Art, to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2022-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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