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accession number: 1952.222
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Christ on the Cross, c. 1600–1610. El Greco (Spanish, 1541–1614). Oil on canvas; framed: 221 x 144 x 10 cm (87 x 56 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.); unframed: 193 x 116 cm (76 x 45 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1952.222
title: Christ on the Cross
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creation date: c. 1600–1610
creation date earliest: 1600
creation date latest: 1610
current location: 212 Baroque Painting and Sculpture
creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund
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culture: Spain, 17th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Spanish before 1800
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* El Greco (Spanish, 1541–1614) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 221 x 144 x 10 cm (87 x 56 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 193 x 116 cm (76 x 45 11/16 in.)
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inscriptions:
inscription: Inscription on plaque at top of cross, in Hebrew, Greek and Latin: Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00
In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).
title: Religious Art
opening date: 1964-12-15T05:00:00
Religious Art. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (December 15, 1964-January 10, 1965).
title: Masterworks from The Phillips Collection
opening date: 2005-02-20T00:00:00
Masterworks from The Phillips Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-May 29, 2005).
title: El Greco: Ambition and Defiance
opening date: 2019-10-14T04:00:00
El Greco: Ambition and Defiance. Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, Paris cedex 12, France (organizer) (October 14, 2019-February 10, 2020); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (March 5-October 19, 2020) https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/2939/el-greco-ambition-and-defiance.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Exposición del Antiguo Madrid, Sociedad Espanola de Amigos del Arte, Madrid, Spain (1926). (lent by Salesas Neuvas, Madrid)', 'opening_date': '1926-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Religious Art from Byzantium to Chagall, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (December 15, 1964-January, 10 1965).', 'opening_date': '1964-12-15T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'El Greco of Toledo, Museo del Prado, Madrid, (Apr. 1 - June 6, 1982); National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (July 2 - Sept. 6, 1982); Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, (Sept. 26 - Nov. 21, 1982); Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Tex., (Dec. 12, 1982 - Feb. 6, 1983).', 'opening_date': '1982-04-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Holy Image, Holy Space: Icons and Frescoes from Greece, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 9-October 22, 1989).', 'opening_date': '1989-09-09T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Convent of the Salesas, Madrid, Spain
date: By 1815-1952
footnotes:
citations:
Tomas Harris, London, England
date: 1952
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(Rudolf Heinemann, New York, NY)
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(M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: -1952
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1952-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Madrid. Paseo por Madrid; ó, Guia del Forastero en la Corte. Obra ... precedida de un compendio de la historia de Madrid, etc. 1815.
page number: p. 41
url:
Cossío, Manuel B. El Greco. Madrid: V. Suárez, 1908.
page number: p. 367, no. 109
url:
Sociedad Española de Amigos del Arte, Madrid. Exposición del antiguo Madrid; catálogo general ilustrado. Madrid: Gráficas reunidas, s. a, 1926.
page number: cat. no. 900, p. 85
url:
Camon Aznar, Jos. Domenico Greco. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1950.
page number: I, 646, fig. 491, and II, 1366, no. 178
url:
Francis, Henry S. “A Crucifixion by El Greco.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 40, no. 1 (1953).
page number: pp. 4-7
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141846
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. 422
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n77
Cleveland Museum of Art, and William Mathewson Milliken. In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. [Catalogue]. 1958.
page number: cat. no. 50
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Cleveland Museum of Art, and William Mathewson Milliken. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1958.
page number: p. 37
url:
Gaya Nuño, Juan Antonio. La pintura española fuera de España; historia y catálogo. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1958.
page number: p. 203, no. 1387
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Canaday, John. Metropolitan Seminars in Art. [New York]: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1959.
page number: Portfolio 3: Expressionism, p. 26
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Wethey, Harold E. El Greco and His School. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1962.
page number: I, fig. 186, and II, 46-47, no. 68
url:
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, and Your Neighbor's Faith (Group). Religious Art from Byzantium to Chagall: [Catalogue of] a Loan Exhibition, Dec. 13, 1964 to Jan. 10, 1965. 1965.
page number: cat. no. 35
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. 130
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n154
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. 130
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n154
Lafuente Ferrari, Enrique, Greco, and José Manuel Pita Andrade. El Greco: the expressionism of his final years. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1969.
page number: p. 128 no. 94, p. 159 fig. 79
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Greco, and Tiziana Frati. L'opera completa del Greco. Milano: Rizzoli, 1969.
page number: cat. no. 6Ic, illus. p. 101
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National Gallery (Great Britain), Neil MacLaren, and Allan Braham. The Spanish School. London: National Gallery, 1970.
page number: p. 39
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Cleveland Museum of Art, and Berthold Fricke. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Hannover: Knorr & Hirth, 1970.
page number: p. 52
url:
Stockstad, Marilyn, "Spanish Art from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century," Apollo, LXXXXVI (1972).
page number: 500
url:
Greco, El, and José Gudiol. El Greco: Doménikos Theotokópoulos ; 1541-1614. Genf: Weber, 1973.
page number: pp. 162, 347, cat.no. 117, illus. p. 158 fig. 140
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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. 149
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n169
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Mentioned: p. 496-498; Reproduced: p. 497
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Greco, and Jonathan Brown. El Greco of Toledo. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1982.
page number: pp. 249-250, repr. p. 250, repr. color plate 58
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Acheimastou-Potamianou, Myrtalē. Holy Image, Holy Space: Icons and Frescoes from Greece. Athens: Greek Ministry of Culture, 1988.
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Smeyers, Jos, and Maurits Smeyers. Misschien het tedere begrijpen: dichter bij kunst. Leuven: Davidsfonds/Literair, 1999.
page number: p. 62
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Musée du Louvre, Véronique Gerard Powell, and Claudie Ressort. Ecoles espagnole et portugaise. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2002.
page number: fig. 49, p. 124
url:
U.S. Catholic 79, no. 4 (April 2014).
page number: Reproduced: p. 25
url:
Kientz, Guillaume, and Greco. Greco. Paris : Réunion des musées nationaux : Musée du Louvre ; Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
page number: Reproduced: p.137, no. 34
url:
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