About the Artwork
Mourning Virgin
between 1520 and 1530
Hans Leinberger
Landshut
German
Unknown
Lindenwood (?) with polychromy
Overall: 53 × 15 1/8 × 11 3/4 inches (134.6 × 38.4 × 29.8 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth in memory of her husband
43.3
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Luigi Bellini (Florence, Italy). Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)
1943-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Valentiner, W.R. "A Statue of St. John by Hans Leinberger." Bulletin of the DIA 7, no. 6 (March 1926): pp. 68-69, p. 68 (ill.).
Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition from Detroit Private Collections. Detroit, 1926, no. 86.
Valentiner, W.R. "Two Wood Sculptures of the Late Gothic Baroque." Bulletin of the DIA, 22, no. 7 (1943): pp. 67-70. p. 68 (ill.).
Cummings, F. and C. Elam, eds. DIA Illustrated Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 88 (ill.).
Gillerman, D. Gothic Sculpture in America. Vol. II. The Museums of the Midwest. Turnhout, 2001, pp. 163-165, no. 124.
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circle of Hans Leinberger, Mourning Virgin, between 1520 and 1530, lindenwood (?) with polychromy. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth in memory of her husband, 43.3.
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