St. Adrian of Nicomedia

between 1510 and 1525

German

Not On View

St. Adrian of Nicomedia: 1 of Collection Gallery

St. Adrian of Nicomedia: 2 of Collection Gallery

St. Adrian of Nicomedia: 3 of Collection Gallery

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Title St. Adrian of Nicomedia

Artwork Date between 1510 and 1525

Artist ----------

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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 Pot metal glass, transparent glass, vitreous paint, silver stain, lead cames, lead-tin solder, metal frame, copper wire

Dimensions Overall: 73 1/2 × 23 1/4 inches (186.7 × 59.1 cm)

Classification Stained Glass

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Museum Purchase, Funds from Robert H. Tannahill Foundation

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. 2014.35

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Inscriptions Inscribed, as part of composition: O•SANTE•A...ENE ORA•PRO...

Provenance

Church of Saint Giles (Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England)

removed by Colonel Shaw (Stoke Poges Manor, England) in exchange for private vestibule

May 16, 1926, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) Fine Early German Glass

valuable English and French Furniture, lot 49

acquired through (French and Company, Bronx, New York, USA) by William Randolph Hearst

1941, sold by (Gimbel Bros., New York, New York, USA) Art Objects and Furnishings from the William Randolph Hearst Collection

1943, John Woodman Higgins

Higgins Armory Museum, 2728

May 7, 2014, sold by (Thomas Del Mar Ltd., in association with Sotheby's, London, England) John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, lot 316

(Sam Fogg, London, England)

2014-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

You, Yao-Fen. “New Observations Concerning the Stoke Poges Windows.” Revista de História da Arte 3 (2015): pp. 153–164.

Darr, Alan Phipps, Yao-Fen You, and Megan Reddicks. “Recent Acquisitions (2007–15) of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts.” The Burlington Magazine 158 (June 2016): 501–512, p. 502 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

German, St. Adrian of Nicomedia, between 1510 and 1525, pot metal glass, transparent glass, vitreous paint, silver stain, lead cames, lead-tin solder, metal frame, copper wire. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Funds from Robert H. Tannahill Foundation, 2014.35.