Object details
Accession number
C30s23
Primary Creator
German
Full title
Dorothea Jöchl (née Hungershausen) and her daughter Katharina, with St. Peter and the hausmark of Hungershausen
Creation Date
about 1480-1490
Provenance
Stilfes bei Sterzing parish church, Tirol, Austria, one of two stained glass panels.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the dealer A. Pickert, Nuremberg, for either 350 or 450 florins on 11 August 1875 (as "Girl kneeling," German, about 1490).
Marks
Inscriptions: O HALIG S PETRO PIT GOT FÜZ [sic] VNS / IÖCHL 149
Dimensions
89 x 38 cm (35 1/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
Display Media
Pot metal glass with white glass with silver stain and sanguine
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
Gothic Room
Bibliography
Josef Resch. "Monumenta in variis ecclesiis diocesis Brixinensis." Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, MS FB 14.101, f. 78.
Georg Schmid. Urkunden und Aktenregesten aus dem Dekanatarchive Stilfes (Innsbruck, 1912), p. 27.
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1925), p. 33. (as German, 15th-16th century)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 265 (as German, Nuremberg, about 1490-1500).
Erich Egg. "Ein sterzinger Glasgemälde in Amerika." Der Schlern 35 (1961), pp. 10-11.
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 6, no. 36 (5 May 1963), p. 2.
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 6, no. 48 (28 Jul. 1963), pp. 1-2.
George L. Stout. Treasures from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1969), pp. 202-03, ill.
Madeline H. Caviness (ed.). Medieval and Renaissance Stained Glass from New England Collections. Exh. cat. (Cambridge: Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, 1978), p. 99.
Madeline H. Caviness et al. Stained Glass before 1700 in American Collections: New England and New York. Corpus Vitrearum Checklist I. Studies in the History of Art 15. (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1985), p. 42, ill.
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