Scenes from the Life of Saint Ursula: The Baptism of Saint Ursula and the Virgins in Rome (above); Saint Ursula and the Virgins Depart from Basel (below)
Unidentified artist, German, 15th century
Medium/TechniqueOil on panel
Dimensions127.3 x 54 cm (50 1/8 x 21 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of George H. Edgell
Accession number41.707
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NOTES:
[1] This painting (along with MFA no. 51.2398) belonged to a series of eight (?) panels illustrating scenes from the life of St. Ursula. Six remained together until the time of the the Hearst auction in 1941, at which time they were further dispersed. Another panel from this cycle is today in the Steinmetz collection, Darmstadt, Germany. See Hiltrud Kier and Frank Günter Zehnder, Lust und Verlust II, Corpus-Band zu Kölner Gemäldesammlungen 1800-1860 (1998), pp. 305-306, nos. 157-165.
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