Carrying of the Cross (Christ & the Holy Women)
Object type | Painting |
Genre | Religious |
Date | ca. 1606 |
Dimensions | 3.5 x 5 cm |
Support | Ivory |
Medium | Watercolor |
Collectors/patrons | Federico Borromeo |
Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #318 Ertz 1979, #138 |
Location | Milan, Italy |
Collection | Ambrosiana |
Accession numbers | inv. #271 (2) |
Tags | Traveling, Horse, Borromeo, Field, Burghers, Soldiers, Christ, New Testament |
For comments on Holy Water Stoup see entry on Procession in the winter. The present work is one of four Brueghel miniatures mounted together in that. Dating is not fixed; letters only show that it must have been done before 1616.