Object details
Object number
C6e7
Creator(s)
German
Title
Saint Martin Dividing His Cloak
Date
about 1520
Medium
Pot metal, white glass with silver stain and sanguine
Additional Dimensions
Diameter: 36.5-37 cm (14 3/8-14 9/16 in.)
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealer A. Pickert, Nuremberg, on 11 August 1875. It was valued at 130 florins, but this and two other small windows (C6e4 and C6e12) were included free of charge in the purchase of 8 larger windows now in the Gothic Room and Long Gallery Chapel that totaled 3400 guldens.
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
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 47. (grouped with other painted glass)
Madeline Caviness (ed.). Medieval and Renaissance Stained Glass from New England Collections. Exh. cat. (Cambridge: Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, 1978), p. 99. (as German, about 1520)
Madeline Caviness et al. Stained Glass before 1700 in American Collections: New England and New York (Corpus Vitrearum Checklist I). Studies in the History of Art, vol. 15 (Washington, D.C., 1985), p. 43, ill. (as German (?), about 1520)
Gallery
Spanish Chapel
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