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The Crucifixion (a Leaf from the Potocki Psalter)

The Crucifixion (a Leaf from the Potocki Psalter)

mid-13th century
Place of ManufactureParis, France
Medium/TechniqueTempera, ink and gold leaf on parchment
DimensionsOverall: 10.7 x 8 cm (4 3/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Schaeffer Galleries in memory of Dr. Georg Swarzenski
Accession number57.707
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
Collections
ProvenanceBy the late 18th century, probably removed from a 13th-century French psalter [see note 1]. 1957, Schaeffer Galleries, New York; 1957, given by Schaeffer to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 14, 1957)

NOTES:
[1] In the late 18th century, Stanislaw Kostka Potocki (b. 1755 - d. 1821), the Polish emissary to Paris, purchased an already incomplete psalter -- known as the Potocki Psalter -- that remained in his family until 1932, when it was sold to the National Library, Warsaw. This miniature has been identified as coming from the Potocki Psalter. It is believed to have been removed by the time of Potocki's purchase in the 18th century, although at what date the removal occurred is not known. Four other miniatures from the psalter, today at the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery (England), are also thought to have been removed by this early date. See "The Illuminations of the Potocki Psalter from the Wilanów Collection" (exh. cat., Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw, 2004), pp. 95-96, 100-101.