About This Artwork

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

South Bend, Indiana, University Art Gallery, University of Notre Dame, 1 October – 30 October, 1957.

Art Institute of Chicago, Small Bronzes from Chicago Collections, 22 July – 8 October, 1972.

Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Decorative-Applied Art from Late Antiquity to the Late Gothic Style, 14 May - 14 July 1990, and the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 14 August - 14 October 1990, no. 53.

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, "Recent Purchases and Gifts," Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 46, 4 (November 1952), p. 72 (ill.).

Carmen Gomez-Moreno, Medieval Art from Private Collections (New York, 1962), p. 25.

Yvonne Hackenbroch, Bronzes, other Metalwork, and Sculpture in the Erwin Untermyer Collection (New York, 1962), p. 25.

Hermann Schnitzler, Peter Bloch, Charles Ratton, and Fritz Volbach, Mittelalterische Elfenbein-und Emailkunst aus der Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Trunigen, Luzern, 2 vols. (Düsseldorf, 1965), no. E137.

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., The Thomas F. Flannery Collection: Medieval and Later Works of Art (December 1, 1983), no. 14.

Thomas Gaehtgens, ed., Wilhelm von Bode: Mein Leben 1 (Berlin, 1997), pp. 83–85.

Ownership History

Dr. Robert Tornow (Ferdinand Robert-Turnow, d. 1875), Berlin; given to Empress Friedrich (Crown Princess Victoria, d. 1901) of Germany, Neue Palais, Berlin by 1875 [according to Wilhelm von Bode 1997; and copy of letter from Saemy Rosenberg to Hans Huth, 30 October 1951, in curatorial file]; by descent to Empress Friedrich's daughter, Princess Margarete of Prussia, Landgravin of Hesse (d. 1953), Schloss Friedrichshof, Taunus in 1901 [according to sources cited above]; sold to Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, 1951 [according to copy of letter from Saemy Rosenberg to Hans Huth, 30 October 1951, in curatorial file]; museum purchase, 1952.