id: 112856 accession number: 1931.449 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.449 updated: 2022-06-25 09:00:24.907000 The Crucifixion with a Carthusian Monk, c. 1460. Workshop of Rogier van der Weyden (Flemish, c. 1399-1464). Oil and gold on wood; image: 37.1 x 27.3 cm (14 5/8 x 10 3/4 in.); framed: 57.5 x 48 x 7 cm (22 5/8 x 18 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 38.4 x 29.2 cm (15 1/8 x 11 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds 1931.449 title: The Crucifixion with a Carthusian Monk title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1460 creation date earliest: 1455 creation date latest: 1465 current location: 112 Northern Renaissance creditline: Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds copyright: --- culture: Netherlands technique: oil and gold on wood department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Medieval Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Rogier van der Weyden (Flemish, c. 1399-1464) - artist --- measurements: Image: 37.1 x 27.3 cm (14 5/8 x 10 3/4 in.); Framed: 57.5 x 48 x 7 cm (22 5/8 x 18 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 38.4 x 29.2 cm (15 1/8 x 11 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 12, 1936). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Exhibition of the Month: Masterpieces in Miniature opening date: 1949-06-03T04:00:00 Exhibition of the Month: Masterpieces in Miniature. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 3-August 29, 1949). title: Dukes and Angels: Art from the Court of Burgundy (1364-1419) opening date: 2004-05-27T00:00:00 Dukes and Angels: Art from the Court of Burgundy (1364-1419). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2004-January 9, 2005). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Art Through the Ages, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (Oct. 30, 1931-Nov. 29, 1931). --- PROVENANCE Private Collection, Lower Rhine, Germany date: footnotes: citations: (Paul Drey, Munich, Germany) date: footnotes: citations: (A. S. Drey, New York, NY sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1931 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1931- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Carthusian monks can easily be identified by the white scapular or large rectangular piece of fabric, which is joined by bands at the side and has a hood attached to it. digital description: wall description: This painting shows a Carthusian monk kneeling in devotion and prayer before the Crucifixion. It is likely that this panel was intended for the cell of a monk in an unknown monastery. The Carthusians were particularly devoted to the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and devotional images were provided for each monk’s cell. The Carthusian order was founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 with the purpose of providing the strictest separation from the world. The first Carthusians were dedicated to contemplation through silence, prayer, poverty, penance, and almost continuous occupancy of a solitary cell. The solitary life could only be maintained through the establishment of separate cell houses. Each community of monks was limited to the apostolic number of 12, though exceptions were sometimes made. They were recognized by their white, full-length, cowled habit called the scapular, shown here. The artist has not been identified. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Destrée, Jules. Roger de La Pasture van der Weyden. Paris: G. van Oest, 1930. page number: vol. I, p. 108 url: Francis, Henry S. "A Flemish Panel of the Crucifixion." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 19, no. 1 (1932) page number: pp. 2, 4-7 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137440 "Cleveland Gets XVth Century Crucifixion," Art Digest vol. 6 (Jan. 15, 1932). page number: p. 11 url: "The Crucifixion," American Magazine of Art vol. XXIV (Feb. 1932). page number: p. 145 url: "Cleveland Adds Flemish Master," Art News Vol. XXX, pt. 1 (Jan. 9, 1932). page number: p. 5 url: "American Art Notes: A Flemish "Crucifixion" for Cleveland," Connoisseur, Vol. 89, no. 367 (March 1932). page number: pp. 215-16 url: "Recent Museum Acquisitions." Parnassus Vol. IV, no. 1 (Jan. 1932). page number: p. 34 url: Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. page number: Reproduced: p. 24 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n32 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 434 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n80 Detroit Institute of Arts. Flanders in the Fifteenth Century: Art and Civilization. Catalogue of the Exhibition Masterpieces of Flemish Art: Van Eyck to Bosch. 1960. page number: p. 91 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 68 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n92 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 68 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n92 Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 1. European Paintings before 1500. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Reproduced: fig. 56, p. 158 - 159 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 76 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n96 Jolly, Penny Howell. “Rogier van Der Weyden’s Escorial and Philadelphia Crucifixions and Their Relation to Fra Angelico at San Marco.” Oud-Holland 95, no. 3 (January 3, 1981). page number: p. 125, no 34 url: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Belgium). The Flemish Primitives: Catalogue of Early Netherlandish Painting in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Brussels: Brepols, 1996. page number: p. 148, fig. 100 url: Fliegel, Stephen N., Sophie Jugie, and Virginie Barthélémy. Art from the Court of Burgundy: The Patronage of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless 1364-1419 : Musée Des Beaux-Arts De Dijon, May 28-September 15, 2004, the Cleveland Museum of Art, October 24, 2004-January 9, 2005. [Dijon]: Musée des beaux-arts, 2004. page number: Cat. No. 71, pp.200, 202 url: Fliegel, Stephen N., and Stephen N. Fliegel. A Higher Contemplation: Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012. page number: p. 81, fig 62 url: Weyden, Rogier van der, Lorne Campbell, and José Juan Pérez Preciado. Rogier van der Weyden y España: actas del congreso internacional = proceedings of the international symposium, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, mayo de 2015. 2016. page number: pp. 36-7 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.449/1931.449_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.449/1931.449_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.449/1931.449_full.tif