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Head of a Female Saint

CultureFrench
Datelate 13th century
MediumLimestone
DimensionsOverall: 10 × 9 1/2 inches, 45 lb. (25.4 × 24.13 cm, 20.41 kg)
Credit LineGift of the Laura Nelson Kirkwood Residuary Trust
Object number44-37
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 106
Collections
Exhibition History
N/A
Provenance

Altounian-Lorbet Antiquaires, Mâcon, France, by October 4, 1928;

 

Purchased from Altounian-Lorbet Antiquaires by Brummer Gallery, Paris and New York, stock no. P5488, October 4, 1928-September 11, 1944 [1];

 

Purchased from Brummer Gallery, through Harold Woodbury Parsons and the generosity of the Laura Nelson Kirkwood Residuary Trust, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1944.

 

NOTES:

 

[1] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Library and Archives, Brummer Gallery Records, Gothic and Renaissance marbles, stones, and alabaster, Object inventory card number P5488.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 108, (repro.), as Head of a Female Saint.

 

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), 52, (repro.), as Head of a Female Saint.

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), 64, (repro.), as Head of a Female Saint.

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), 134, (repro.), as Head of a Female Saint.

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