Object details

Accession number

S30w11

Primary Creator

German, Ravensburg

Full title

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

Creation Date

about 1490

Provenance

Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the cabinet maker and antiquarian Antonio Carrer (d. 1912), Venice for 1,000 lire on 20 September 1893, through the American painter and collector Ralph W. Curtis (1854-1922).

Dimensions

119.5 cm (47 1/16 in.)

Display Media

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

Gothic Room

Bibliography

Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 272. (as Franconian, about 1490)
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. 565-66, fig. 4. (as Upper Rhenish, about 1490)
Anneliese Harding. German Sculpture in New England Museums (Boston, 1972), pp. 13-14, 34, 83, no. 36. (as Franconian with upper Rhine influence, about 1475-1485)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 88, no. 116. (as Upper Rhenish or Swabian, about 1490)
Walter Cahn. "Medieval Sculpture" in James Thomas Herbert Baily (ed.). The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors, "Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum" (London, 1978), pp. 25-26, no. 8.
Rollin van N. Hadley. Museums Discovered: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1981), pp. 164-65, ill.

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