A Bishop Saint (Burchard of Würzburg?)
A Bishop Saint (Burchard of Würzburg?)
- Artist
- Tilman Riemenschneider
- Artist Dates
- c. 1460-1531
- Artist Nationality
- German
- Title
- A Bishop Saint (Burchard of Würzburg?)
- Date
- c. 1515/1520
- Medium
- linden wood, with traces of polychromy
- Dimensions
- 82.3 x 47.2 x 30.2 cm (32 3/8 x 18 9/16 x 11 7/8 in)
- K Number
- K1378
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1961.1.1
- Notes
Provenance
Wilhelm Sattler and his son, Jens Sattler [d. 1901], Schloss Mainberg (near Kitzingen), before 1826; (Sattler sale, Rudolph Lepke Kunst-Auction-Haus, Berlin, 29 October-2 November 1901, no. 63); [1] Benoit Oppenheim [1842-1931], Berlin, until at least 1927; [2] Munich art market; [3] Henry Goldman [1857-1937], New York, by 1934; [4] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris), by 1942; [5] sold 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [6] gift by exchange 1961 to NGA. [1] Justus Bier, "The Bust of a Bishop by Tilmann Riemenschneider," _Art Quarterly_ 6 (1943): 166, n. 3. [2] Max J. Friedländer, "Review of Eduard Tönnies, _Leben und Weke des Würzburger Bildschnitzers Tilmann Riemenschneider_, Strasbourg, 1901," _RfK_ 24 (1901): 468; Benoit Oppenheim, _Originalbildwerke in Holz, Stein, Elfenbein, usw. aus der Sammlung Benoit Oppenheim, Berlin_, Leipzig, 1907: no. 10, pl. 6; Kurt Prister, _Riemenschneider_, Dresden, 1927: 34. [3] Bier 1943, 159. [4] Justus Bier, "Tilman Riemenschneider," in Thieme-Becker 28 (1934): 334; Bier 1943, 159. Undated Duveen brochure, in NGA curatorial files. [5] George Swarzenski to Edward Fowles of Duveen Brothers, letter of 9 May 1942, copy in NGA curatorial files. [6] Middeldorf 1976, 125.