About the Artwork
Saint Robert of Molesmes
ca. 1440
Enguerrand Quarton
1408-1466
French
Unknown
Paint on wood panel
Unframed: 24 1/4 × 12 7/8 inches (61.6 × 32.7 cm) Framed: 32 × 19 3/4 × 2 1/2 inches (81.3 × 50.2 × 6.4 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass
46.299
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed in gloriole, around head: SANTVS RVBERTVS THEOTONICVS FR Inscribed behind shoulders: S AN TVS R V B E RTVS
Provenance
by 1927, (Paul Bottenwieser, probably Berlin, Germany)
1928, collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius H. Haass [Lillian Henkel] (Detroit, Michigan, USA) 1946-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Exhibition of French Primitive Painting. Exh. cat., Kleinberger Galleries. New York, 1927, cat. 14.
A Loan Exhibition of French Gothic Art. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, November 16-December 6, 1928, (unpaginated), cat. 2, (repr.) [lent by Mr. & Mrs. Julius H. Haass- as School of Provence, ca. 1440].
"Notes," International Studio (January 1929): p. 57, (repr.).
Valentiner, Wilhem R. "French School, about 1460." In Unknown Masterpieces, ed. Wilheim R. Valentiner. London, 1930, (unpaginated), no. 72 (ill.) [as by French School, dated about 1460].
Masterpieces of Art. Exh. cat., New York World's Fair. New York, 1939, cat. 127 [exh. organized by W. R. Valentiner].
Richardson, E. P. "An Early Work of Enguerrand Quarton," Art Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 2 (1947): pp. 114-123, (repr.).
Ring, G. A Century of French Painting, 1400-1500. London, p. 228, no. 230 [attributed to School of South Eastern France, c 1460].
Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 92 [as Girolamo di Giovanni da Camerino, Italian, active 1450/73].
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Enguerrand Quarton, Saint Robert of Molesmes, ca. 1440, paint on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass, 46.299.
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