Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Adam rising from a tomb and collecting Christ's blood in a chalice at the foot of the cross; angels holding the Sun and the Moon; two angels crying in the spandrels.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, 1350-1400.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Reverse
Smooth and flat. Paper label affixed with partly illegible inscription: 'This crucifixion was cut with a [...] knife by a french priest in [...] was given by one of Her Lady Exiles to [...] mother [...] who was [...] of this house from 28th Feb 1790 to 23rd [...] 1810 when she sweetly departed this life RIP.'
Object Condition
Two holes in the upper part of the panel.
Provenance
Taken from France by a priest (on or before 1790). Unknown religious house (1790-1810). Bar Convent, York; British Museum, by purchase, 1970.
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