About the Artwork
The Flight into Egypt
between 1515 and 1525
Master of the Seven acts of Mercy
active 1515 - 1525
Netherlandish
Unknown
Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain
Overall (including leaded framework): 1/2 × 9 1/4 inches (1.3 × 23.5 cm)
Stained Glass
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund
36.97
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
2041 (the Grosvenor Thomas stock number), near the border above the Virgin's head.
Marks, near the border above Virgin's head: 2041 [the Grosvenor Thomas stock number]
Provenance
until 1923, (Grovesnor Thomas, London, England)
until 1936, by descent to his son, (Roy Grovesnor Thomas, New York, New York, USA)
1936-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Husband, T. Stained Glass Before 1700 in American Collections: Silver-stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels (Corpus Vitrearum Checklist IV). Studies in the History of Art, vol. 39, Washington, DC, 1991, pp. 14, 111.
Raguin, V. and H. Zakin. Stained Glass Before 1700 in the collections of the Midwest States (Corpus Vitrearum United States of America 7), vol. I, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan. London, 2001, pp. 229-232.
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attributed to Master of the Seven acts of Mercy, The Flight into Egypt, between 1515 and 1525, colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 36.97.
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