Capital
N/A
Possibly Poitier [1];
With Demotte, Paris and New York, by 1930 [2];
With Stora Galleries, Inc., Paris and New York, by May 11, 1936;
Purchased from Stora Galleries by Brummer Gallery, New York, stock no. N3932, May 11, 1936-August 10, 1948 [3];
Purchased from Brummer Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1948.
NOTES:
[1] Galerie Demotte Photographic Archive, Musée du Louvre, Paris, available digitally online: https://corpus.louvre.fr/s/galeries-demotte/item/34933 , accessed June 2, 2023. The identity of this constituent is currently unknown.
[2] According to Demotte photo archive (see note 1), this object was with Lucien Demotte in 1930. According to Marilyn Stokstad, art historian, in a note in the NAMA curatorial files, the capital was offered by Demotte to the Louvre in 1930, but declined.
[3] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Library and Archive, Brummer Gallery Records, Gothic and Renaissance marbles, stones, and alabaster, Object inventory card number N3932. The Brummer stock card originally stated that Brummer bought the object from Demotte, but this name was crossed out and Stora Galleries added in its place.
“New Wing of the Nelson Gallery,” The Kansas City Times (April 4, 1949): unpaginated, (repro.), clipping, scrapbook, NAMA Archives, vol. 12.
“Tour Appeal Grows,” [The
Kansas City Times] (April 24, 1952): unpaginated, erroneously as French, as
A Wishing Well, clipping, scrapbook,
NAMA Archives, vol. 13, p. 121.
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the
William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts,
4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and
Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 48, (repro.).
Marilyn Stokstad, “Romanesque and Gothic Art,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 487, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William
Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas
City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the
Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson
Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 60, (repro.).
Dorothy Gillerman, Gothic Sculpture in America, vol. 2, The Museums of the Midwest (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1989), 414, (repro.), as Capital or Font (?).
