About this artwork
Michael Wolgemut directed a busy workshop in Nuremberg that turned out numerous paintings, copious book illustrations, and master painters. The Treasury (Schatzbehalter) included almost a hundred full-page woodcuts with minimal repetition. The blocks were likely cut in-house under Wolgemut’s supervision. The text and images juxtaposed devotional scenarios, sometimes in curious order. This image contrasts the seventh plague of Egypt (hailstones intermixed with fire) with the flagellation of Christ. Both sides are thickly, garishly painted, especially in the orange-red areas denoting shooting flames and gushing blood.
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Currently Off View
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Michel Wolgemut
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Title
- The Scourging of Christ (verso), and The Israelites Enslaved in Egypt (recto), from Schatzbehalter (Treasury), Plate 21 from Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century
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Origin
- Germany
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Date
- Original 1491
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Medium
- Woodcut in black with hand-colored additions and letterpress in black with rubrication (recto and verso) on ivory laid paper
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Inscriptions
- Stamp verso upper left, in black: "Veräussert" (in rectangle); stamp recto upper left, in black: "Bayerisches National Museum" (in oval with crest), upper right, in purple: (illegible, in circle)
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Dimensions
- 250 × 175 mm (image/block, verso); 252 × 176 mm (image/block, recto); 272 × 182 mm (sheet)
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Credit Line
- Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund
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Reference Number
- 1938.86.21
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