About This Artwork

English, Nottingham

The Betrayal, 15th century

Alabaster
48.3 x 30.5 cm (19 x 12 in.)
George F. Harding Collection, 1990.584

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

St. Paul, Minnesota, St. Paul Art Center, Age of Belief: An Exhibition of Religious Art from the Harding Museum Collections, 1966–1967, cat. 43.

Publication History

Augusta S. Tavender, "Medieval English Alabasters in American Museums," Speculum 30, 1 (1955), p. 70, no. 59.

Dorothy Gillerman, ed., Gothic Sculpture in America, vol. 2: The Museums of the Midwest (Turnhout, Belgium, 2001), pp. 7–8, no. 5.

Ownership History

York Galleries, New York, by 1931 [according to copy of gallery receipt in curatorial file]; sold to George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago, 1931 [according to source cited above]; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, 1939; transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1990.