Saint John the Baptist, 1370/80
Alabaster
67 x 23 x 14.9 cm (26 3/8 x 5 7/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1947.391
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
“Revue des Ventes: Collection Victor Gay,” Gazette de l’Hôtel Drouot 18, 36 (March 27, 1909), no. 352.
Dorothy Gillerman, ed. Gothic Sculpture in America, vol 2: The Museums of the Midwest (Turnhout, Belgium, 2001), pp. 21-22.
Ownership History
Victor Gay, Paris, before 1909; sold at his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 23-26 March 1909, lot 352, to M. Drey [according to Gazette de l’Hôtel Drouot]. Château de Breteuil, Seine-et-Marne [according to annotated receipt in curatorial file]. Jacques Seligmann and Company, Incorporated, New York, by 1942 [according to purchase receipts, nos. 6549–7188, January 1938 – December 1942, in the Seligmann records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution]; sold to the Art Institute, 1947.