Object details
Accession number
S30n21
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealer and restorer Hermann Einstein, Munich for 5,000 marks on 17 August 1897.
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 275. (as Swabian, about 1480)
Charles L. Kuhn. "German Late Gothic Sculpture in the Gardner Museum, Boston" in Wilhelm Reinhold Walter Koehler (ed.). Medieval Studies in Memory of A. Kingsley Porter (Cambridge, 1939), pp. 559-63, fig. 2. (the sculptures as Swabian, probably School of Ulm, about 1500; the shrine as South German, end of the 15th century)
Walter Paatz. Bernt Notke und sein Kreis (Berlin, 1939), p. 314, no. 12, pl. 164. (as the Imperialissima Master, Wenryk Wylsynck (?), a collaborator of Bernt Notke, about 1510-1520)
G. von der Osten. "Niederdeutsche Bildewerke in Amerikanischen Besitz." Niederdeutsche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte (1965), p. 102. (as the Imperialissima Master)
Theodor Müller. Sculpture in the Netherlands, Germany, France and Spain, 1400-1500 (Harmondsworth, 1966), p. 165. (as the Imperialissima Master, perhaps Wenryk Wylsynck)
Anneliese Harding. German Sculpture in New England Museums (Boston, 1972), pp. 14, 37, 83, no. 43. (as Lübeck, end the 15th century)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), pp. 92-93, no. 121. (as North German, Lübeck, circle of Bernt Notke, about 1510-1520)
Walter Cahn. "Medieval Sculpture" in James Thomas Herbert Baily (ed.). The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors, "Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum" (London, 1978), pp. 26-27, no. 9. (as North German, Lübeck, circle of Bernt Notke, about 1510-1520)
Rollin van N. Hadley. Museums Discovered: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1981), pp. 168-69, ill. (as North German, Lübeck, circle of Bernt Notke, about 1510-1520)
John Rowlands et al. Drawings by German Artists and Artists from German-speaking regions of Europe in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum: the Fifteenth Century, and the Sixteenth Century by Artists born before 1530 (London, 1993), p. 20, no. 37. (as circle of Notke)
Alan Chong et al. (eds.) Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2003), pp. 31-32. (German (northern), the same artist as the Tjustrup Gnadenstuhl, the Imperialissima Master, about 1500)
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