Morales, Luis de or workshop (attr.), Badajoz 1509 - 1586, Christ Carrying the Cross. Oil/walnut, enlarged at the margins with added mouldings, German private collection. The typology of the Cristo Portacroce presented here was developed in Venice in the environment of Giovanni Bellini and continued by Sebastiano del Piombo, from whom four versions have survived. One of these (now in St Petersburg) was commissioned by the Spanish envoy to Rome, Fernando de Silva, Count of Cifuentes and is probably a link to the same representation of Luis de Morales now held in the Real Colegio Seminario de Corpus Christi-Museo in Valencia (see Leticia Ruiz Gómez ed., The Divine Morales, ext. cat., Madrid Museo Nacional del Prado 2015, p. 190, cat. no. 55). The present painting is executed on walnut, a pictorial support that was used more frequently in Morales' workshop, especially for smaller-format paintings (cf. Maiter Jover et al.: The painter's studio: artistic procedures in the workshop of Luis des Morales, in: ibid., p. 214.). An infrared reflectography (IRR) shows that the painting is fully signed on what is in all likelihood a white ground. The underdrawing with a hard pencil, probably a drawing charcoal, is as a composition very qualitative, free and light, in some places it is condensed with hatching. The painting, on the other hand, as can be seen e.g. in the area of the ear or at the mouth, does not follow the underdrawing exactly but is executed independently in a free manner., 62 x 51,5 cm