Christ Carrying the Cross

1720–61

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Brush and gray ink, pen and black ink, over graphite on blue paper
Dimensions: 6-3/4 x 11-3/8 in. (17.1 x 28.9 cm)
Collection no.: 1998.175
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner. Christ Carrying the Cross. Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Katrin Bellinger, in memory of Wolfgang Ratjen, 1998. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Christ Carrying the Cross — Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner. 1720–61.

Medium: Brush and gray ink, pen and black ink, over graphite on blue paper. Dimensions: 6-3/4 x 11-3/8 in. (17.1 x 28.9 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Katrin Bellinger, in memory of Wolfgang Ratjen, 1998.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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