Object details
Object number
C6e5
Creator(s)
German
Title
Moses and the Brazen Serpent
Date
about 1530
Medium
White glass with silver stain and vitreous paint
Dimensions
21.3 x 15.6 cm (8 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
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.
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.
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.
Gallery
Spanish Chapel
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