About the Artwork
St. John the Evangelist
between 1525 and 1530
Hans Leinberger
Landshut
German
Unknown
Wood with polychrome decoration
Overall: 52 3/4 × 15 1/4 × 12 7/8 inches (134 × 38.7 × 32.7 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Ralph Harman Booth
26.14
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Until 1926, Ralph Harman Booth [1873-1931]
1926, 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.).
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.).
Paintings and Sculptures Illustrated: A Companion to the Catalogue. Detroit, 1943, p. 122 (ill.).
Cummings F., and C. Elam, eds. DIA Illustrated Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 88.
Gillerman, D. Gothic Sculpture in America. Vol. II, The Museums of the Midwest. Turnhout, 2001, p. 163, no. 124.
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circle of Hans Leinberger, St. John the Evangelist, between 1525 and 1530, wood with polychrome decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Ralph Harman Booth, 26.14.
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