- Period
- Late Gothic
- Date
- c. 1430
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object no.
- 2001.77
Leaf Excised from the Tarleton Hours: Christ Carrying the Cross
Unknown maker, c. 1430
Cleveland Museum of Art · The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection · Public domain
- Maker
- Unknown maker
- Date
- c. 1430
- Medium
- ink, tempera, silver, and gold on vellum
- Dimensions
- Overall: 15.3 x 11.1 cm (6 x 4 3/8 in.)
- Period
- Late Gothic
The record
Why it matters
Although the Hours of the Virgin are traditionally illustrated with scenes from the early life of Christ, sometimes the Passion of Christ, or the events leading up to and immediately after the Crucifixion, are used. This scene of Christ carrying the cross, used for the sixth hour (Sext), is placed between a scene of flagellation, or beating, and the Crucifixion. This book of hours uses the feminine pronoun in prayers, indicating that it had a female owner.