The style of the present piece suggess a northern origin and a date around 1600. The elongated forms of the figures nad the elegant but disciplined composition are both typical of te late sixteenth century, as are the dramatically crpped soldires in the right foreground. No doubt the invenion was derived fro an as ye unidentified print source. A comparable Crcifixiaon wit hthe monogram AVB, which is presumed to stand for Arent van Bolten, is in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (I. Weber, Deutsche, Niederlandishce und Franosiche Renaissancepladetten, 1500-1650, 2 vol., Munich, 1975 I, p. 386, no. 953, and II, pl. 270).