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Saint Mary Cleophas and Her Family
Bernhard Strigelc. 1520/1528
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Saint Mary Cleophas and Her Family
- Creator: Bernhard Strigel
- Date Created: c. 1520/1528
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 125.5 x 65.8 cm (49 7/16 x 25 7/8 in.)
- Provenance: Possibly O. Streber, Munich.[1] (Haskard Bank, Florence, and Charles Fairfax Murray, as agent, by 1900);[2] sold 1900 to (Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London); sold May 1900 to Rodolphe Kann [d. 1905], Paris;[3] by descent to executors of the Kann estate: Edouard Kann, Paris; Betty Schnaffer [née Kann], Frankfurt; Martin and Eleanore [née Kann] Bromberg, Hamburg; Jacob and Mathilde [née Kann] Emden, Hamburg, and Edmond and Madeline [née Kann] Bickard See, Paris.[4] (Duveen Brothers, Paris, August 1907);[5] purchased August 1907 by members of the Kann family, possibly Martin and Eleanore Bromberg, Hamburg.[6] Probably Dr. Max Emden, Switzerland, by 1939.[7] (Wildenstein & Co., New York, by 1939);[8] purchased February 1954 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[9] Denver Art Museum, Colorado, 1954-1958; at the NGA from February, 1958;[10] gift 1961 to NGA. [1] Unverified, cited by Alfred Stange, _Kritisches Verzeichnis der deutschen Tafelbilder vor Dürer_. 3 vols. (Munich, 1970), 2:204, no. 899. [2] Letter of 24 January 1969, from Richard Kingzett, Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London, to Colin Eisler, in NGA curatorial files. [3] Kingzett letter of 24 January 1969 cited above. [4] Duveen stockbook in archives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; see letter of 23 February 1987 from Guy Bauman, Department of European Paintings to John Hand in NGA curatorial files. [5] Guy Bauman letter cited above and Edward Fowles, _Memories of Duveen Brothers_ (London, 1976), 36-43. [6] Bauman letter, cited in note 4, notes that in both the stockbook and the salesbook, the paintings are listed only as having been sold to "Kann relations." [7] Wildenstein & Co. brochure in NGA Kress files lists Bromberg and Dr. Emden as previous owners. [8] Letter of 14 September 1988 from Ay-Whang Hsia, Wildenstein & Co., to John Hand, in NGA curatorial files. [9] The bill of sale (copy in NGA curatorial files, see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1873) is dated February 10, 1954, and was for a total of fourteen paintings; payments by the Foundation continued to March 1957. [10] William E. Suida, _Paintings and Sculpture of the Samuel H. Kress Collection_. (Denver, 1954), 64, no. 28; letter of 10 November 1987 to John Hand from Louise H. Kliopov, Denver Art Museum, in NGA curatorial files. Eisler 1977, 26, reversed the exhibition dates for this and the _Saint Mary Salome and Her Family_ also by Strigel.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on panel
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