Details from a winged altarpiece
1510-20
Pine, tempera
Ecce Homo
Inv. 56.464
114 x 62 cm
One of six panels originally from the workday side of the same winged altarpiece. The paintings of Crowning with Thorns and Ecce Homo are the original thickness and belonged to the former stationary wings. The other four depictions most likely adorned the outer sides of the movable wings. All of the scenes are borrowed from the corresponding woodcuts from Dürer’s Small Passion cycle (Doubting Thomas [Dürer B49], Crowning with Thorns [B34], the Flagellation [B33], the Mocking of Christ [B30], Preparation of the Cross [B39], Ecce Homo [B35]. Some of the panels are trimmed. This explains the size discrepancies among them. In 1940, a panel of conspicuously similar dimensions depicting Christ before Pilate was auctioned in Cologne at the Lempertz Auction House, which in Isolde Lübecke’s opinion also belonged to the same altarpiece.
Provenance:
János Simor purchased the panels in Regensburg from the cathedral vicar Dengler in 1876.
Restoration:
Miklós Gyöpös, 1978;
Bibliography
Hercegprímási Képtár-1879, 19. sz. – Magyar Sion-1885, 524, 673. – Maszlaghy-1891, 17-22 sz. – Gerevich Tibor: Az Újság 1916. július 14, 5 és július 20, 4. – Gerevich-1928, 214. – Genthon-1948, 124. – Boskovits-Mojzer-Mucsi-1964, 168-170. – Isolde Lübbecke: Zur Spätgotischen Tafelmalerei in Regensburg. In: Regensburg im Mittelalter. Beiträge zur Stadtgeschichte vom frühen Mittelalter bis zum Beginn der Neuzeit. Hg. Martin Angerer und Heinrich Wanderwitz. Regensburg 1995. 429-444. Here 442, footnote. 97.
One of six panels originally from the workday side of the same winged altarpiece. The paintings of Crowning with Thorns and Ecce Homo are the original thickness and belonged to the former stationary wings. The other four depictions most likely adorned the outer sides of the movable wings. All of the scenes are borrowed from the corresponding woodcuts from Dürer’s Small Passion cycle (Doubting Thomas [Dürer B49], Crowning with Thorns [B34], the Flagellation [B33], the Mocking of Christ [B30], Preparation of the Cross [B39], Ecce Homo [B35]. Some of the panels are trimmed. This explains the size discrepancies among them. In 1940, a panel of conspicuously similar dimensions depicting Christ before Pilate was auctioned in Cologne at the Lempertz Auction House, which in Isolde Lübecke’s opinion also belonged to the same altarpiece.
Provenance:
János Simor purchased the panels in Regensburg from the cathedral vicar Dengler in 1876.
Restoration:
Miklós Gyöpös, 1978;
Bibliography
Hercegprímási Képtár-1879, 19. sz. – Magyar Sion-1885, 524, 673. – Maszlaghy-1891, 17-22 sz. – Gerevich Tibor: Az Újság 1916. július 14, 5 és július 20, 4. – Gerevich-1928, 214. – Genthon-1948, 124. – Boskovits-Mojzer-Mucsi-1964, 168-170. – Isolde Lübbecke: Zur Spätgotischen Tafelmalerei in Regensburg. In: Regensburg im Mittelalter. Beiträge zur Stadtgeschichte vom frühen Mittelalter bis zum Beginn der Neuzeit. Hg. Martin Angerer und Heinrich Wanderwitz. Regensburg 1995. 429-444. Here 442, footnote. 97.
