About This Artwork

German (Franconia)

Saints Achatius, Barbara, Apollonia, and Sebald, c. 1490

Distemper on linen, mounted on panel
22 3/8 x 18 3/8 in. (56.8 x 46.7 cm)
Image: 21 9/16 x 17 5/8 in. (54.8 x 44.7 cm)
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection, 1947.100

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

“Rundschau,” Cicerone 20 (1928), p. 516 (ill.).

Charles L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1936, pp. 52–53, nos. 189–90.

Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Chicago, 1938, pp. 37–38, no. 32, pl. 24.

Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 362-65, ill.

Ownership History

Galerie Norbert Fleischmann, Munich, by 1928 [invoice in curatorial file]; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1928; given to the AIC, 1947.