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Virgin and Child with Four Saints

c. 1500

Germany or Switzerland, Upper Rhine

Tapestry weave: linen warp, wool and silk wefts

Overall: 79.7 x 155.8 cm (31 3/8 x 61 5/16 in.)

Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., for the Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection 1939.162

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Description

The Virgin and Child appear with Saints Catherine, John the Evangelist, Jodocus, and Mary Magdalene. Symbols of the Virgin’s purity and of Christ’s death and redemptive mission are included in the scene: the wall, lilies, fruit tree, and the palm tree on a hill. The saints wear costumes fashionable around 1475 to 1480 and are arranged in a row across the foreground, characteristic of the late 15th-century tapestries from Nuremberg.

Provenance

supposed to have been in the Cathedral of St. Lorenz of Nuremberg (Göbel, p. 173).

Citations

Guiffrey, Jules. Les tapisseries du XIIe à la fin du XVIe siècle. Paris: E. Lévy, 1911. p. 175, fig. 88

Kurth, Betty. Die deutschen Bildteppiche des Mittelalters. Wien: A. Schroll, 1926. I:189, 273

Luitpold. Die fränkische Bildwirkerei. Firenze: Pantheon Casa Editrice, 1926. p. 79-80

Kurth, Betty. Die deutschen Bildteppiche des Mittelalters. Wien: A. Schroll, 1926. vol. I p 189, 273, vol. III taf 313

Luitpold. Die fränkische Bildwirkerei. Firenze: Pantheon Casa Editrice, 1926. no. 51

Göbel Heinrich. 1933. Wandteppiche. Vol. Teil 1, Teil 3, Die Germanischen Und Slawischen Länder. Deutschland Einschließlich Schweiz Und Elsass (mittelalter), Süddeutschland (16. Bis 18. Jahrhundert). Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann. 3/1: 173-174

Underhill, Gertrude. "Tapestries." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 6 (1939): 103-02. p. 104-105 www.jstor.org

Milliken, William M. "Silver Jubilee Exhibition." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no. 6 (1941): 88-111. p. 103 illus www.jstor.org

Wadsworth Atheneum, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, and Charles Crehore Cunningham. 2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving: A Loan Exhibition : Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Dec. 7, 1951 to Jan. 27, 1952 ; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb. 27, 1952 to Mar. 25, 1952. Hartford, Conn: Wardsworth Atheneum], 1951. p. 43; plate X, p. 72

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 193 archive.org

Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. Aspects of Late Mediaeval Art; The Mediaeval Conference, the Ohio State University. 1958. no. 2

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 68 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 68 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 77 archive.org

Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. p. 16, 19, 58

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg. Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1986. p. 200, cat. no. 57

Cleland, Elizabeth A. H., and Lorraine Karafel. Tapestries from the Burrell Collection. London: Philip Wilson Publishers, an imprint of I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., 2017. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 85, fig. 1

Exhibition history

2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (December 7, 1951-January 27, 1952); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (February 27-March 25, 1952).

Aspects of Late Medieval Art. The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH (October 31-November 20, 1958).

Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 22-March 17, 1985).

Visions of the Divine: Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval Germany (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 14, 2016-December 4, 2017).

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