Design for a crucifix

Inventory number: CVH 338/27
Bollaert & Moortgat

Design for a crucifix: the cross itself, on which Christ is hanging, and which is decorated on both extremities of the horizontal bar and at the bottom, is standing on a globe round which a serpent is coiled with an apple in its mouth; this globe is placed on a base that offers two alternative designs. A scale indication is drawn on the left side.

Artist:

Jan-Baptist Verberckt the Elder

Dating:

unknown

Material:

Watercolour; brown ink on paper

Dimensions:

321 x 202 mm

Marks :

Inscription at the top of the cross, on a drawn piece of paper.

Place:

Plantin-Moretus-Museum, Antwerp

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