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Saint George

CultureFrench
Datelate 15th century
MediumLimestone with paint
DimensionsOverall: 15 3/4 × 14 × 9 inches (40.01 × 35.56 × 22.86 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number35-18
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

The Waning Middle Ages, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, November 1-December 1, 1969, no. 62, as St. George.

Origins: Collecting to Create the Nelson-Atkins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 14, 2021-March 6, 2022.

Provenance

With E. Mariani, Melun, France, by August 16, 1926;


Purchased from Mariani by Brummer Gallery, Paris and New York, stock no. P5117, August 16, 1926-May 12, 1931 [1];


Purchased from Brummer Gallery by Wright S. Ludington (1901-1992), New York, May 12, 1931-November 21, 1934;


Returned by Ludington to Brummer Gallery, November 21, 1934-February 26, 1935;


Purchased from Brummer Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.

 

NOTES:

 

[1] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Library and Archive, Brummer Gallery Records, Greek and Roman marbles and stones, Object inventory card number P5117.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 87, (repro.), as Saint George.

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), 53, (repro.), as St. George.  

J.L. Schrader, The Waning Middle Ages: An Exhibition of French and Netherlandish Art from 1350 to 1500 Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of ‘The Waning of the Middle Ages’ by Johan Huizinga, exh. cat. (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1969), 59, (repro.), as St. George.

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), 65, (repro.), as St. George.

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 140, (repro.), as Saint George or Saint Michael.

Dorothy Gillerman, Gothic Sculpture in America, vol. 2, The Museums of the Midwest (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2001), 214-15, (repro.), as Bust of Saint George.

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 44, (repro.), as Saint George.

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