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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1930.37
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Figure of an Apostle
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Figure of a Saint / Wooden Applique, Saint
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
figure, sculpture
Date
c. 1250
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Spain, Catalonia
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231598

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Wood with traces of polychrome
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
31 x 6.7 x 5.3 cm (12 3/16 x 2 5/8 x 2 1/16 in.)
with mount: 37 x 12.5 x 5.3 cm (14 9/16 x 4 15/16 x 2 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dupont. Per Cook 1939 (see bibliography), Dupont, an antiques dealer, brought the work to Barcelona; he reported it had come from a church in the region of La Seo de Urgel.
Unidentified Dealer, Sort, Spain, Sold to Junyent. Per Cook, 1939 (see bibliography)
D. Olaguer Junyent, Barcelona, Spain, 1914, Sold to Plandiura. Per Cook, 1939 (see bibliography).
D. Luis Plandiura, Barcelona, Spain, Purchased from Junyent. Per Cook, 1939 (see bibliography).
Joaquin Cabrejo, Madrid, Spain, Purchased from Plandiura?, 1919. Per Cook, 1939 (see bibliography)
Leon Schinasi, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1930. Through Arnold Seligmann, Rey, and Co.; it is unclear if Schinasi ever had possession of the piece or had it sent to the Fogg at the time of his purchase.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Leon Schinasi, Esq.
Accession Year
1930
Object Number
1930.37
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Josep Gudiól i Cunill, Els Primitius, S. Babra (Barcelona, Spain, 1927-1929), part 2, p. 44, repr. as fig. 4
  • Unidentified article, Fogg Art Museum Annual Report (Cambridge, MA, 1930), pp. 5, 17
  • "A Catalan Wooden Altar Frontal from Farrera", Medieval Studies In Memory of A. Kingsley Porter, ed. Wilhelm R. W. Koehler, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1939), pp. 293-300, pp. 294, 298; repr. as fig. 1, p. 295
  • "Gothic Sculpture in American Collections: The Checklist: I: The New England Museums", GESTA, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman (1980), vol. XIX, no. 2, no. 9, repr.
  • Anita F. Moskowitz, Gothic Sculpture in America, I: The New England Museums, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman, Garland Publishing, Inc. (New York, 1989), no. 75 p. 103-104, repr., no. 140 p. 176

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Lamont Library, 1957, Lamont Library, Cambridge, 04/01/1957 - 04/30/1957
  • The Spirit of the Cathedral, Old South Church, Boston, 05/01/1964 - 05/31/1964

Verification Level

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