Saint Barbara, between 1510 and 1525

  • English
  • German

Pot metal, white glass, vitreous paint, silver stain

  • 74 x 23 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches (188.0 x 59.7 x 7 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb

58.155

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

By 1926, Colonel Albert George Shaw, Stoke Poges, England (from a private vestibule in Stoke Poges Church)

1929, (Sotheby's & Co., London, England)

(Lionel Harris, Spanish Art Gallery, London, England)

(French & Co., New York, New York, USA)

By 1929, William Randolph Hearst, Bronx, New York

His sale, Hammer Galleries, New York, 1941, lot 66-2 to 8 (bought in)

1953-58, William Randolph Hearst Foundation

1958-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Lipscomb, George, THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF BUCKINGHAM, IV, London, 1847 ART OBJECTS AND FURNISHINGS FROM THE WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST COLLECTION: CATALOGUE RAISONNE COMPRISING ILLUSTRATIONS OF REPRESENTATIVE WORKS TOGETHER WITH COMPREHENSIVE DESCRIPTIONS OF BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS, AND COMPLETE INDEX, New York: Publishers Printing Co, 1941 Detroit Institute of Arts, HANDBOOK, 1971, p. 12 Caviness, Madeline H., ed., MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STAINED GLASS FROM NEW ENGLAND COLLECTIONS, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, April 25- June 10, 1978, p. 79 STAINED GLASS BEFORE 1700 IN AMERICAN COLLECTIONS: MID- WESTERN AND WESTERN STATES (CORPUS VITREARUM CHECK- LIST III), Studies in the History of Art, vol. 28, Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1989, p. 161, p. 162 (ill E) (with bibliography) Raguin, V.C., NORTHERN RENAISSANCE STAINED GLASS, CONTI- NUITY AND TRANSFORMATIONS, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, Worcester, MA, February 2-March 8, 1987, exh. cat., p. 70 Raguin, Virginia C. and Helen J. Zakin CORPUS VITREARUM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PART VIII: STAINED GLASS BEFORE 1700 IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE MIDWEST STATES vol. 1. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2001, pp. 201-205, 210, for further bibliography p. 205 You, Yao-Fen. “New Observations Concerning the Stoke Poges Windows.” Revista de História da Arte 3 (2015), pp. 153–164.

possibly German; possibly English, Saint Barbara, between 1510 and 1525, Pot metal, white glass, vitreous paint, silver stain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb, 58.155.