Christ Carrying the Cross

Inscriptions

Inscribed upper left: HO / IGI (on banner)

Provenance

Sale, Munich, Hugo Helbing, June 1, 1896, no. 920 (ill.), as South German, 16th century. Frederic C. Bartlett, Chicago, by 1916; given to the AIC, 1916.

Publications

Lilli Fischel, Die Karlsruher Passion und ihr Meister, Karlsruhe, 1952, p. 63 n. 120. The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 175. Ilse Hecht, “Eine Kreuztragung des Meisters der Freisinger Heimsuchung in Chicago,” Jahrbuch des Vereins für christliche Kunst in München 18 (1990), pp. 109–12 (ill). Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 411-14, ill.

Quick Overview

Artist: Master of the Freising Visitation (German, active 1451–1490)
Date: c. 1490
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 108.4 × 98 cm (42 5/8 × 38 9/16 in.); Framed: 118.5 × 110.5 × 6.1 cm (46 5/8 × 43 1/2 × 2 3/8 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: oil on panel
Style: 15th century
Place: Germany
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Gift of Frederic C. Bartlett
Accession no.: 1916.371

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.