Virgin and Child with Twelve Saints

between 1510 and 1520

German

Not On View

Virgin and Child with Twelve Saints: 1 of Collection Gallery

Virgin and Child with Twelve Saints: 2 of Collection Gallery

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Title Virgin and Child with Twelve Saints

Artwork Date between 1510 and 1520

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Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. German

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. German

Medium Wood (possibly pine), paint (possibly tempera), gold and silver leaf, vellum, metallic paper; iron

Dimensions Overall (closed): 60 × 49 1/4 × 12 inches (152.4 × 125.1 × 30.5 cm) Overall (open): 60 × 84 × 12 inches (152.4 × 213.4 × 30.5 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 23.158

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Provenance

until 1855, Parish Church of Saint Bonifacius (Emleben, present-day Germany)

January 25, 1855, sold to Herzogliche Kunstkabinett, Schloss Friedenstein (Gotha, present-day Germany)

1923-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) via (Julius Böhler Gallery, Munich, Germany)

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Published References

Osten, Gert von der. "Niederdeutsche Bildwerke in amerikanischem Besitz," Niederdeutsche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte 4 (1965): pp. 101-108; 105–106, (figs. 70-71, ill.).

A Check List of Ancient, European, American and Canadian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1966, p. 27.

Gmelin, Hans Georg. "Zum Werk des Göttinger Malers Heinrich Heisen," Niederdeutsche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte 5 (1966): pp. 161-180; 172, 174; 180, note 43.

A Check List of Ancient, European, American and Canadian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1969, p. 23.

Gmelin, Hans Georg. Spätgotische Tafelmalerei in Niedersachsen und Bremen. Berlin, 1974, pp. 599-601, no. 198 (ill.).

Gillerman, Dorothy. Gothic Sculpture in America, vol. II.: The Museums of the Midwest. Turnhout, 2001, pp. 162-163, no. 123 (ill.).

Goodman, Becca, Chassica Kirchhoff, and Ellen Hanspach-Bernal. “Ein thüringisches Marienretabel am Detroit Institute of Arts. Eine erste Bestandsaufnahme,“ Kunst in Pflege. Exemplarische Erforschung und Restaurierung bedeutender Denkmale in Thüringen 1999–2023, Arbeitsheft des Thüringischen Landesamtes für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie, Neue Folge 57 (2023): pp.105–123 (figs. 1-16, 18).

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German, Virgin and Child with Twelve Saints, between 1510 and 1520, wood (possibly pine), paint (possibly tempera), gold and silver leaf, vellum, metallic paper; iron. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 23.158.