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Crucifixion: textile fragment
Italian
late 14th century
Object Place: Florence, Italy
Medium/Technique
Linen and cotton plain weave embroidered with silk and gilded-silver cotton yarns
Dimensions
42 x 28.6 cm (16 9/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession Number43.131
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionDeep cream colored linen ground. Central figure of Christ on the Cross flanked at left by the Virgin Mary and two attendant women and a group of soldiers on horseback, at the right by St. John the Evangelist and a group of soldiers, some on horseback. Background of foliate scrolls, worked with polychrome silks and metallic threads in slip, stem, knot and couching stitches. Most of metallic thread now disappeared, much of silk thread now disappeared.
ProvenanceBy 1900, Leopold Iklé (b. 1838 - d. 1922), St. Gallen, Switzerland; 1922, to his son, Fritz Iklé (b. 1877 - d. 1946), St. Gallen; sold from the Iklé collection to Adolph Loewi (d. 1977), Venice and Los Angeles; 1943, sold by Loewi to the MFA for $3000. (Accession Date: May 13, 1943)