Christ with the Crown of Thorns

Workshop of Albert Bouts, Netherlandish, about 1452 - 1549

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about 1500

Oil and gold leaf on panel

Overall: 24 13/16 × 16 5/16 in. (63 × 41.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchase made possible by gifts from Olivia H. and John O. Parker, Class of 1958; the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund; Mr. and Mrs. A. Brooks Parker, III, Class of 1955; and the Friends of the Museum

P.986.67

Geography

Place Made: Netherlands, Europe

Period

1400-1600

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Nazi-Era Provenance Research

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription on the halo of Christ: Attendite et videte si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus (Look and see if there is a sorrow like my sorrow)

Course History

REL 60, Reformations: Protestant and Catholic, Catherine Randall, Fall 2013

THEA 16, Theatre and Society II: Early Modern Performance, Laura Edmondson, Winter 2015

HIST 96.39, Saints and Material Devotion, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Fall 2021

ARTH 27.02, Living Stone: Sculpture in Early Modern Italy, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Winter 2022

ANTH 74, The Human Spectrum, Nate Dominy, Spring 2022

HIST 63.02, Material Culture of Science, Whitney Robles, Spring 2022

History 63.02, Reading Artifacts: The Material Culture of Science, Whitney Barlow Robles, Spring 2023

History 96.39, Saints and Relics, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Spring 2024

Spanish 30.01, Introduction to Hispanic Studies I, Noelia Cirnigliaro, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 32, Sacrilege and Idolatry: Religious Images in 16th-Century Europe, Brittany M. Beth, Class of 2006, Student Programming Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 23-July 19, 2006.

Art and/as Violence, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 12, 2006-March 11, 2007.

Christ/Antichrist: Religious Imagery in Ernst Fuch's The Victor, Lathrop Gallery Elevator Vestibule, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 2011.

European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 1, 1988-June 22, 1997.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 19, 2001-September 20, 2003.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997-February 14, 2000.

The Art of Spectatorship: A History of Viewing from the Renaissance to the Present Day, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19-April 6, 2008.

Publication History

T. Barton Thurber, Twenty Years of Building a Collection: The Hood Museum of Art, Apollo (Vol. 162, no. 526), December 2005, London: Apollo Magazine, 2005, pp. 46-53, ill. p.48.

Brittany M. Beth, A Space for Dialogue 32, Sacrilege and Idolatry: Religious Images in 16th Century Europe, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. cover.

T. Barton Thurber, "European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art", Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 30-31, ill. p.30, no. 2.

Provenance

Bishop Edward Francis Hoban (1878-1966), St. John College, Cleveland, Ohio, date unknown; Spencer A. Samuels & Co., Ltd., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1986.

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