About This Artwork

Netherlandish, North Lowlands, Leiden
Circle of Pieter Cornelisz (1498/90 - 1560/61) or Lucas van Leyden (1489-1533)

Mordechai overhears the Conspiracy of Bagathan and Thares, c. 1525

Glass, paint, silver stain
27.5 x 19.2 cm (10 13/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
Bequest of Martin A. Ryerson, 1937.863

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Charles Gallery, The Grosvenor Thomas Collection of Ancient Stained Glass (New York, 1913), no. 51.

Timothy Husband, Stained glass before 1700 in American collections, silver-stained roundels and unipartite panels : Corpus Vitrearum checklist IV (Washington, D.C., 1991), p. 7.

Virginia Chieffo Raguin et al, Stained Glass Before 1700 in the Collections of the Midwest States, Corpus Vitrearum, United States of America, part VIII (London, 2001), pp. 84-86, no. AIC 4.

Ownership History

Grosvenor Thomas, before 1913 [sold, New York, 1913, see Charles Gallery 1913, no. 51]. Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago; by descent to his wife, Carrie Ryerson; bequeathed to museum, 1937.