The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 20, 2026

A vertically oriented print in black-inked fine lines depicts Christ, a man with a light skin tone, standing on a fallen door. Shaded with fine hash marks and draped in heavily folded robes, he holds a cross-topped staff with a banner. He reaches toward a bearded man and a woman exiting a stone archway. Horned, monstrous creatures crouch above the entrance and underneath the door.

The Descent into Limbo

1400s

Germany

engraving
Sheet: 15.2 x 11.1 cm (6 x 4 3/8 in.); Mat Size: 36.2 x 24.5 cm (14 1/4 x 9 5/8 in.)
Gift of FitzRoy Carrington 1924.818
Location: Not on view
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