Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus
Gerard David
ca. 1510 · Oil on oak panel · Robert Lehman Collection
These panels once formed the inner and outer faces of polyptych wings, with the Annunciation (1975.1.120A-B) serving as the exterior and Christ Carrying of the Cross, with the Crucifixion and The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus, the interior. Painted by Gerard David in the early years of the sixteenth century, the pictures reveal the influence of the artist’s fifteenth-century predecessors on his compositional style and palette. Although it is possible that the wings once flanked a single painted panel component, thus forming a triptych, it is also conceivable that they could have been elements of a more complex multimedia altarpiece with carved sections surrounded by two-dimensional painted panels. The Lehman wings were, possibly very early in their existence, linked to a painting of the Lamentation that was also created in the David workshop and which is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- Artist
- Gerard David
- Date
- ca. 1510
- Medium
- Oil on oak panel
- Department
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
