Inv. B 275
Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; soldiers in armour; halberds; hanging purse; lantern.
Museum's opinion 2013: Italian or Spanish, 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy and gilding: gold (hair, along the hems; beards; on the halo, etc.), red (lips), black (eyes), green (ground).
Reverse
Paper and fabric glued to the back.
Object Condition
The left side has broken off and been glued back into place.
Provenance
Collection of Wilhelm Clemens (b. 1847, d. 1934), Cologne: donated with the rest of his collection to the city of Cologne in 1919-1920.
Bibliography
Die Sammlung Clemens, ed. by B. Klesse, H.-U. Haedeke and H. Griese, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Kunstgewerbemuseum, 1963, no. 99, p. 26.
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