Panel from a Tomb

Unidentified artist

about 1350–70

Medium/TechniqueStone; alabaster, blue glass and parcel gilding

Dimensions73.66 x 104.14 cm (29 x 41 in.)

Credit LineGift of Jack Linsky

Accession number66.386

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsSculpture

Collections

Europe

ProvenancePossibly from a royal tomb, monastery church at Poblet, near Barcelona, Spain (original commission) [see note 1]. July 1922, sold by Stora et Cie., Paris, to Jacques Seligmann et Fils, Paris (stock no. 9041); October 3, 1922, sent by Seligmann, Paris, to Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York (stock no. 1851); April 20, 1926, sold by Seligmann to Myron C. Taylor (b. 1874 - d. 1959), New York [see note 2]; November 11-12, 1960, Taylor estate sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, lot 898. Possibly with Blumka Gallery, New York [see note 3]. By 1966, Jack Linsky (b. 1897 - d. 1980), New York; 1966, gift of Jack Linsky to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 1, 1966)

NOTES:
[1] Mildred Stapley Byne wrote about the reliefs to Seligmann (November 23, 1923): "I should say that your frieze was the side slab of one of the royal tombs in Poblet, as the few which remain in the transept and nave of the church are very similar." When they were accessioned in 1966, the reliefs were believed to have come from the tomb of Pedro VI de Queralt in the sanctuary of Belloch de Santa Coloma de Queralt.

[2] Archives of American Art, Jacques Seligmann and Co. Papers, Series 1.3, General Correspondence, Box 95, folder 8 (Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Myron C.); and Series 7.4, Consular Invoices, 1920-1953, Box 298, folder 4.

[3] Blumka was consulted about the reliefs when they were acquired and appraised them. It is not clear whether the gallery had owned them, or was simply called in for advice.