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Saint Barbara
between 1510 and 1525
(Artist) English (Artist) German
Pot metal, white glass, vitreous paint, silver stain
74 x 23 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches (188.0 x 59.7 x 7 cm)
Stained Glass
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb
58.155
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
By 1926, Colonel Albert George Shaw, Stoke Poges, England (from a private vestibule in Stoke Poges Church)
1929, (Sotheby's & Co., London, England)
(Lionel Harris, Spanish Art Gallery, London, England)
(French & Co., New York, New York, USA)
By 1929, William Randolph Hearst, Bronx, New York
His sale, Hammer Galleries, New York, 1941, lot 66-2 to 8 (bought in)
1953-58, William Randolph Hearst Foundation
1958-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Lipscomb, George, THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF BUCKINGHAM, IV, London, 1847
ART OBJECTS AND FURNISHINGS FROM THE WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST COLLECTION: CATALOGUE RAISONNE COMPRISING ILLUSTRATIONS OF REPRESENTATIVE WORKS TOGETHER WITH COMPREHENSIVE DESCRIPTIONS OF BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS, AND COMPLETE INDEX, New York: Publishers Printing Co, 1941
Detroit Institute of Arts, HANDBOOK, 1971, p. 12
Caviness, Madeline H., ed., MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STAINED GLASS FROM NEW ENGLAND COLLECTIONS, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, April 25- June 10, 1978, p. 79
STAINED GLASS BEFORE 1700 IN AMERICAN COLLECTIONS: MID- WESTERN AND WESTERN STATES (CORPUS VITREARUM CHECK- LIST III), Studies in the History of Art, vol. 28, Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1989, p. 161, p. 162 (ill E) (with bibliography)
Raguin, V.C., NORTHERN RENAISSANCE STAINED GLASS, CONTI- NUITY AND TRANSFORMATIONS, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, Worcester, MA, February 2-March 8, 1987, exh. cat., p. 70
Raguin, Virginia C. and Helen J. Zakin CORPUS VITREARUM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PART VIII: STAINED GLASS BEFORE 1700 IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE MIDWEST STATES vol. 1. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2001, pp. 201-205, 210, for further bibliography p. 205
You, Yao-Fen. “New Observations Concerning the Stoke Poges Windows.” Revista de História da Arte 3 (2015), pp. 153–164.
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possibly German; possibly English, Saint Barbara, between 1510 and 1525, Pot metal, white glass, vitreous paint, silver stain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb, 58.155.
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