About the Artwork
Christ Entering Jerusalem on the Back of a Donkey
between 1480 and 1490
Christofel Langeisen
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German
Unknown
Lindenwood, polychrome pigment
Overall: 56 1/2 × 16 × 43 1/2 inches (143.5 × 40.6 × 110.5 cm) Overall (depth through figure's elbows): 16 inches (40.6 cm) Overall: 12 × 35 1/2 inches (30.5 × 90.2 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass
57.97
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Henri Daguerre, Paris, France)
(Joseph Brummer, New York, New York, USA)
Lillian Henkel Haass (Detroit, MIchigan, USA)
1957-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Richardson, E.P. "Three Late Gothic Wood Sculptures." Art Quarterly 3, no. 4 (1940): pp. 343- 347; p. 343 (fig. 4); p. 344 (fig. 5).
Corgan, C. "A Late Gothic Palmesel." Bulletin of the DIA 37, no. 3 (1957-58): pp. 66-67; p. 66 (ill.).
Lipsmeyer, E. "Palmsonntag-Christus und Palmesel." Volkskunst. Zeitschrift für volkstümliche Sachkultur 12, no. 1 (February 1989): p. 50; p. 52 (fig. 5).
Gillerman, D., ed. Gothic Sculpture in America. Vol. II. The Museums of the Midwest. Turnhout, 2001, pp. 155-157, no. 118; p. 156 (ill.).
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Christofel Langeisen, Christ Entering Jerusalem on the Back of a Donkey, between 1480 and 1490, lindenwood, polychrome pigment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass, 57.97.
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