Hans Speckaert (Flemish, died ca. 1577)
Pen and brown and brownish black iron gall inks, brush and iron ink washes, heightened with white; 16 1/4 x 10 3/8 in. (41.3 x 26.4 cm)
Purchase, Rogers and Harris Brisbane Dick Funds, Gifts of Ernest Shapiro and family, Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim, and Mrs. Henry Payne Whitney, and Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, by exchange, and funds from various donors, 1999 (1999.85)
Hans Speckaert was one of several Northern Mannerist painters working in Rome in the sixteenth century. His close study of the art of Michelangelo, Raphael, and other Italian Renaissance masters informs the muscular, monumental figures in this Crucifixion. Two other drawings of this subject made by Speckaert, perhaps in preparation for a painting, are more sedate. Speckaert's art strongly influenced his Northern contemporaries, as can be seen, in particular, in the drawings of Bartholomeus Spranger, Hans von Aachen, and Karel van Mander.