Death of the Virgin | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1975.6
People: Unidentified Artist
Title: Death of the Virgin
Classification: Sculpture
Work Type: relief, sculpture
Date: c. 1500-1525
Culture: Netherlandish
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/226839

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Carved oak with traces of polychromy
Technique: Carved
Dimensions: 55.5 x 40 x 10.5 cm (21 7/8 x 15 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: John Gardner Greene, Boston, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1975

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of John Gardner Greene
Accession Year: 1975
Object Number: 1975.6
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Alan Shestack, "A Late Fifteenth-Century North Netherlandish Relief of 'The Death of the Virgin'", Fogg Art Museum Annual Report (Cambridge, MA, 1976), pp. 79-83; repr. p. 80
Anita F. Moskowitz, Gothic Sculpture in America, I: The New England Museums, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman, Garland Publishing, Inc. (New York, 1989), no. 133 p. 167, repr.

Exhibition History

German Sculpture, 1500 - 1960: A New Installation, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/05/1984 - 12/31/1984
German Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 01/21/1986 - 03/10/1986

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1975.6: Death of the Virgin