Object details
Object number
S19w29
Creator(s)
German, Swabia
Title
Head of Christ
Date
about 1450-1499
Medium
Lindenwood with traces of polychrome
Dimensions
30 cm (11 13/16 in.)
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from an unknown dealer by 1915, through the painter Joseph Lindon Smith (1863-1950).
Commentary
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Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 165. (as German or Franco-Flemish, 13th or 14th century)
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 9, no. 30 (27 Mar. 1966), p. 2. (as possibly Swabian, about 1500)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 86, no. 114. (as South German, Swabia (?), 2nd half of the 15th century)
Gallery
Tapestry Room
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