Images(2)

Saint John

Unidentified artist

1280–90

Object PlaceItaly

Medium/TechniqueWood; lindenwood with polychromy

Dimensions162.6 x 45.1 x 34.3 cm (64 x 17 3/4 x 13 1/2 in.)

Credit LineCentennial Purchase Fund

Accession number67.767

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsSculpture

Collections

Europe

ProvenancePrivate collection, Chateau d'Arbus, near Pau, France [see note 1]. Art market, France (?) [see note 2]. Possibly with Neumeister, Munich; possibly sold by Neumeister to the Hofgalerie, Vienna; 1967, sold by the Hofgalerie to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 13, 1967)

NOTES:
[1] According to a letter from Wolfgang Hofstätter, Hofgalerie, to Hanns Swarzenski of the MFA (December 18, 1967). [2] Notes in the curatorial file (October, 1982) indicate that Hanns Swarzenski recalled that the Hofgalerie had acquired this sculpture from Neumeister, Munich; before then it had been with an unknown French dealer. This has not been verified. Wolfgang Hofstätter first mentioned the sculpture in correspondence to the MFA on October 7, 1966.