Object details
Object number
S30e24
Creator(s)
German, Southern Germany
Title
Mounted Saint
Date
about 1470-1480
Medium
Polychromed wood
Dimensions
103 cm (40 9/16 in.)
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealer Julius Böhler, Munich for 280 marks on 17 August 1897, through the Austrian conductor Wilhelm Gericke (1845-1925).
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.
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1925), p. 32. (as Saint Hubert)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 264. (as Bavarian, 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. 563-65, fig. 3. (as Saint Hubert; provincial Southern German work, about 1480-1490)
Betty Chamberlain. “Gothic Room” in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 7. (as Bavarian, about 1480)
Anneliese Harding. German Sculpture in New England Museums (Boston, 1972), p. 83. (as South German, about 1510)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 87, no. 115. (as South German, about 1470-1480)
Gallery
Gothic Room
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