Design for a Stained-Glass Window with Saints Benedict and Findanus

Artist Daniel Lindtmayer the Younger (Swiss, 1552-1606/1607)

Date1582

MediumBlack ink with gray and red washes on paper

DimensionsOverall: 12 3/4 × 8 inches (32.39 × 20.32 cm)
Framed: 22 × 16 1/2 × 1 inches (55.88 × 41.91 × 2.54 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy

Object number81-30/49

Signedartist's monogram "D. . .L" appears on either side of the bottom point of the escutcheon

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 5, as Design for a Stained Glass Window.

Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 6-June 5, 1983, no. 2, as Design for a stained glass window—SS. Benedict and Findanus.

Master Drawings from Polish Collections, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 17-June 6, 1993. NAMA addition.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 16, as Design for a Stained-Glass Window with Saints Benedict and Findanus.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as Design for a Stained-Glass Window with Saints Benedict and Findanus.

Decorative Designs, Decorative Landscapes and Still Life, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 15-July 16, 2017, no cat., as Design for a Stained-Glass Window with Saints Benedict and Findanus.

Gallery Label

This complex drawing is typical of the more figurative type of stained glass designs introduced into Northern Europe as a result of the Italian Renaissance, which placed more emphasis than before on the human figure, following the example of classical antiquity. Saint Benedict on the left (ca. 480-543 C.E.) founded the Benedictine order of monks. Saint Findanus on the right (9th century C.E.) was also a Benedictine. Born in Ireland, he settled at the monastery of Rheinau in Switzerland.

Provenance

Karl Rolla du Rosey (1784-1862), Dresden [1];

Purchased from Oscar Salzer, Los Angeles, by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, May 21, 1958-1980;

Bequeathed by Milton McGreevy to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

NOTES:

[1] Lugt 2337; Not part of his sale at Weigel, Leipzig, September 5, 1864, and following days, where the only drawing listed as “Lindmeyer” in the alphabetical catalogue (lot 5917) is of Esther before Ahasuerus (Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento).

Published References

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 11-12, (repro.), as Design for a Stained Glass Window.

Ross E. Taggart, Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1982), unpaginated, (repro.), as Design for a stained glass window—SS. Benedict and Findanus.

Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 74-76, (repro.), as Design for a Stained-Glass Window with Saints Benedict and Findanus.

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