Object details
Accession number
S28e13
Primary Creator
Hans Leinberger
(active 1511 - 1530)
Full title
Nativity
Creation Date
about 1520 (the painted landscape background is a later addition)
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealer Julius Böhler, Munich for 256 marks on 17 August 1897, through the Austrian conductor Wilhelm Gericke (1845-1925).
Dimensions
30.4 x 58.4 cm (11 15/16 x 23 in.)
Display Media
Polychromed and gilded lindenwood
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
Chapel
Bibliography
Anneliese Harding. German Sculpture in New England Museums (Boston, 1972), pp. 47, 83, no. 65. (as Bavarian, influence of Leinberger, about 1520)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 101, no. 132. (as Bavarian, Landshut, circle of Hans Leinberger, about 1520)
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