Object details
Accession number
C6e5
Primary Creator
German
Full title
Moses and the Brazen Serpent
Creation Date
about 1530
Provenance
Probably purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the dealer A. Pickert, Nuremberg for 150 marks on 9 August 1897. Alternatively, it may have been purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner's husband, John L. Gardner, Jr. from the dealer Julius Böhler, Munich for about 360 marks on 11 August 1897.
Dimensions
21.3 x 15.6 cm (8 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
Display Media
White glass with silver stain and vitreous paint
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Spanish Chapel
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 47 (grouped with other painted glass).
Madeline Caviness (ed.). Medieval and Renaissance Stained Glass from New England Collections. Exh. cat. (Cambridge: Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, 1978), p. 99.
Timothy Husband and Madeline Caviness. Stained Glass before 1700 in American Collections: Silver-Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels (Corpus Vitrearum Checklist IV). Studies in the History of Art, vol. 39 (Washington, D.C., 1991), p. 98.
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