Saint Christopher
Unidentified artist, Italian or Northern European, 15th century
15th century
Medium/TechniqueMetal; bronze
Dimensions20.3 x 11 x 6 cm (8 x 4 5/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Credit LineArthur Tracy Cabot Fund
Accession number51.412
On View
On viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
This statuette of Saint Christopher (who carried a now-missing figure of the Christ Child) is an example-in his lyrical drapery and finely detailed face-of the International Style current in Europe in the early fifteenth century.
Inscriptions1407ProvenanceIstván (Stephen) Marczibányi, Budapest (b. 1752 - d. 1810); by inheritance within the family to István (Steven) Rakovszky (b. 1847 - d. 1910), Budapest [see note 1]; about 1912, sold by the family of Rakovszky to an anonymous dealer, who on the same day sold it to to Emil Delmár (b. 1876 - d. 1959), Budapest and New York; 1951, sold by Emil Delmár to the MFA for $16,000. (Accession Date: March 8, 1951)Notes:
[1] The provenance of this sculpture was provided by Emil Delmár at the time of its acquisition. Delmár shipped his art collection out of Hungary and into Switzerland in 1938 and 1939. This sculpture was included in an exhibition of his collection held at the Kunstmuseum Bern in 1939/1940, "Kunst und Kunstgewerbe: Sonderausstellung" (1939-1940), cat. no. 7. The collection remained at the Kunstmuseum until the end of World War II, by which time Delmár had immigrated to New York. The collection was shipped to him there between 1945 and 1948. See Andrea Rózsavölgyi, "20 Years in Emigration: Emil Delmár and the Disintegration of His Collection," in Studies on Art and Architecture in Hungary, ed. Anna Tüskés (Budapest, 2012), 239-252.
Unidentified artist, Italian (Northern Italian), 18th century
late 18th century
Unidentified artist, Italian (Florentine), 15th century
about 1480–1500
Unidentified artist, Italian (Veronese), 15th century
Unidentified artist, Italian (Cretan-Venetian), early 15th century
early 15th century
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
about 1500-1525
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
1493
