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Episodes from the Life of a Bishop Saint
Master of Saint Giles and Assistantc. 1500
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Episodes from the Life of a Bishop Saint
- Creator: Master of Saint Giles and Assistant
- Date Created: c. 1500
- Physical Dimensions: painted surface: 61.5 x 47 cm (24 3/16 x 18 1/2 in.) overall (panel): 63.2 x 47.5 cm (24 7/8 x 18 11/16 in.) framed: 76.2 x 62.5 x 5.7 cm (30 x 24 5/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: Chevalier Alexandre de Lestang-Parade, Aix-en-Provence, by 1823.[1] Count Melchior de Lestang-Parade, Aix-en-Provence; (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19-20 May 1882, nos. 105, 106, as anonymous fifteenth century). Baron Etienne Martin de Beurnonville [d. 1881], Paris; (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21-22 May 1883, nos. 43, 44, as Burgundian School, fifteenth century). M. Watel, Paris, 1883.[2] Paris art market, by 1937.[3] (Wildenstein and Co., Paris and New York), by 1938; purchased 1946 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1952 by exchange to NGA. [1] [Jean-Baptiste-François Porte], _Aix ancien et moderne, ou Description des Édifices sacres et profanes, Établissements, Monumens [sic] antiques, du moyen âge et modernes, Bibliotèques, Cabinets, Promenades d'Aix, etc., etc....._ (Aix-en-Provence, 1823), 147. [2] According to Alfred de Champeaux, "Deux vues de la Cité de Paris au XVe siècle," _La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité_, no. 23 (1883), 187. [3] Max J. Friedländer, "Le Maître de Saint-Gilles," _Gazette des Beaux-Arts_, 6e per. 17 (1937), 223. [4] See The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/716.
- Medium: oil on panel
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