Object details
Accession number
S28s1
Primary Creator
German, Ulm
Full title
Saint John the Evangelist
Creation Date
about 1500-1510
Provenance
Created for a sculpture group, possibly a Crucifixion, that once included the related Female Saint (museum no. S28s5).
The two sculptures were purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealer Theodor Einstein & Co., Munich (as the work of a certain Hans Sachs) for a total of about 140 marks on 16 August 1897 through her husband, John L. Gardner, Jr. (1837–1898).
Dimensions
67.3 x 15.2 cm (26 1/2 x 6 in.)
Display Media
Polychromed and gilded lindenwood
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
Chapel
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 259. (as School of Ulm, about 1500)
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 45 (11 Jul. 1965), p. 2.
Anneliese Harding. German Sculpture in New England Museums (Boston, 1972), p. 83. (as School of Ulm, about 1500)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 89, no. 117. (as Upper Swabian, Ulm (?), about 1500-1510)
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