The 50 plates / Plate 2 of 50
Plate 2 of 50
Christ as Savior of the World
Christus als Weltheiland
South German, c. 1490
Not yet located
The drawing
Full-length Christ holding the globe in his left hand and a long staff or scepter in his right, rendered in an elongated late-Gothic style.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- South German, c. 1490
- Title as printed
- Christus als Weltheiland
- Title in English
- Christ as Savior of the World
- Date
- c. 1490
- Medium and size
- Pen on paper, 20.5 × 9 cm; singed at upper right
- Collection in 1922
- K. W. Hiersemann, Leipzig
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- No later attribution located yet.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 2.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.