id:			515375
accession number:	2022.86
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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), c. 1500. Master of the Krainburg Altar (Austrian, active c. 1485–1510). Center: oil on poplar; Wings: oil and gold leaf on poplar panel; center: 45.7 x 33 cm (18 x 13 in.); wings: 51 x 15.9 cm (20 1/16 x 6 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2022.86

title:				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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creation date:			c. 1500
creation date earliest:		1495
creation date latest:		1505
current location:		111 German and Austrian Gothic
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Austria
technique:	Center: oil on poplar; Wings: oil and gold leaf on poplar panel
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Gothic
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Master of the Krainburg Altar (Austrian, active c. 1485–1510) 
Austrian painter, active ca. 1490-1520
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measurements: Center: 45.7 x 33 cm (18 x 13 in.); Wings: 51 x 15.9 cm (20 1/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Exposition des Primatifs Français,</em> Louvre, Paris, France (1904).

* <em>Holbein and his Contemporaries</em>, The John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, ID (22 October-24 December 1950).

* <em>Van Eyck to Durer: Early Netherlandish Painting and Central Europe, 1430-1530 </em>Groeninge Museum, Bruges, Belgium (29 October 2010-30 January 2011).

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PROVENANCE

	Richard von Kaufmann, Berlin, Germany
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	(Sale: Cassirer and Helbing, Berlin, 1917, II, lot 122)
	date: 1917
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	Alfred Bum Collection, Brno, Czechoslovakia, by descent to his son, Martin Bum
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	Martin Bum (changed to Boome), New York, NY
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	(Sale: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 5 November 1942, lot 46)
	date: 5 November 1942
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	Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Y. Palitz, New York, NY
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	Thence By Decent
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	Richard L. Feigen & Co.
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	Private Collection, USA, sold through Ben Elwes Fine Art, to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: c. 2009-2022
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2022-
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fun fact:
The Master of Krainburg was active in the area of today's Slovenia and should therefore be called the Master of Kranj in Slovenian.

digital description:
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.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Exposition des Primitifs Français,</em> and HENRI FRANCOIS XAVIER MARIE BOUCHOT. EXPOSITION DES PRIMITIFS FRANCAIS. 1904.
	page number: 	no. 96
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	Paul Cassirer und Hugo Helbing (Firm).<em> Die Sammlung Richard von Kaufmann</em>, Berlin; II. Band. 1917.
	page number: 	lot 122
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	Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. <em>Paintings by Old Masters.</em> 1942.
	page number: 	lot 46
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	Ring, G. "An Austrian Triptych" <em>The Art Bulletin</em>, XXVI (March, 1944).
	page number: 	pp. 51-52, figs. 1-2
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	John Herron Art Institute. <em>Holbein and His Contemporaries, A Loan Exhibition of Painting in France, The Netherlands, Germany and England, October 22-December 24, 1950.</em> 1950.
	page number: 	no. 53
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	Panofsky, Erwin.<em> Early Netherlandish Painting; Its Origins and Character. </em>Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966.
	page number: 	I, p. 462, no. 4
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	Vignjević, Tomislav. <em>Der Altar von Krainburg (Kranj) un die Fresken in St. Primus oberhalb Kamnik: zür künstlerischen identität eines spätgotischen Malers</em>. Wien: Anton Schroll &amp; Co, 1992.
	page number: 	S. 106-115
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	Vignjevic, Tomislav. <em>Der Meister des Krainburger Altars.</em> Ljubljana: Narodna Galerija, 1996.
	page number: 	pp. 70-73
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	Borchert, Till, and Julien Chapuis.<em> Van Eyck to Dürer: The Influence of Early Netherlandish Painting on European Art, 1430-1530</em>. London: Thames &amp; Hudson, 2011.
	page number: 	no. 258, pp. 462-463
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