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Processional Cross

CultureSpanish
Dateearly 16th century
MediumSilver with gilding
DimensionsOverall: 50 1/2 × 23 inches (128.27 × 58.42 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number41-6.1,2
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 105
DescriptionHexagonal stem portion simulating outside of cathedral. Cross proper embellished with repousse ornaments and eight medallion bas-reliefs, with Christ in center on front, God the Father seated on throne on reverse side. Walnut base.Exhibition History
Origins: Collecting to Create the Nelson-Atkins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 14, 2021-March 6, 2022.
Provenance
Possibly the Cathedral of Saragossa [1];


With Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, by October 29, 1925;


Purchased from Heilbronner by French and Company, New York, stock no. 13787, October 1925;


Purchased from French and Company by William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), New York and San Simeon, CA, October 29, 1925-March 31, 1941 [2];


Purchased from Hearst by Gimbel Brothers, Inc., New York, March 31, 1941;


Purchased from Gimbel Brothers, through Hammer Galleries and Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1941.


NOTES:


[1] According to a note on French and Company’s stock sheet. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, French and Company Stock Sheets, box 12.


[2] William Randolph Hearst Archive, Long Island University Post (S/B lot 1381, art. 26, Album 36, p. 2).



Published References

Art Objects & Furnishing from the William Randolph Heart Collection (New York: Hammer Galleries, 1941), 91 (repro.).

“Clipping, scrapbook, NAMA Archives, vol. 13, (11/24/50-7/11/52).”

Amy Bentley Richardson, “Affirmations of Orthodoxy: A Spanish Processional Cross in the Collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri” (MA Theses, University of Kansas, 1998).

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