About This Artwork

Bernt Notke
German, 1440-1509

The Vision of Joseph, Son of Israel, c. 1500

Oak, traces of polychromy
H. 105 cm (41 1/4 in.)
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1970.108

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Walter Paatz, Bernt Notke und sein Kreis (Berlin: Deutscher Verein für Kunstwiffenschaft, 1939), figs. 109–12.

Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1969–70 (1970), p. 2 (ill.).

Ownership History

Paul Drey Gallery, New York, by 1969 [according to dated photograph and written opinion by Justus Bier, in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1970.