Capital with the Adoration of the Magi

1110/30

Spanish, Aragon

Status: On View, Gallery 236
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Title: Capital with the Adoration of the Magi
Place: Spain (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1110–1150
Medium: Limestone
Inscriptions: Inscription: "MARIA DE N--- C---"
Dimensions: 34.9 × 56.5 cm (13 5/8 × 22 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1944.417
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Meyric R. Rogers and Oswald Goetz, Handbook to the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection (Chicago, 1945), p. 61, no. 2.
An American Correspondent, “Medieval Sculpture in the Buckingham Collection,” Connoisseur 120, 505 (1947), pp. 51–53, fig. 6.
Walter Cahn, Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections: New York and New Jersey, Middle and South Atlantic States, the Midwest, Western and Pacific States 2, Publications of the International Center of Medieval Art 3 (Turnhout, Belgium, 2001), p. 199, no. 6.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, September 25, 2004-January 3, 2005, cat. 16.

Gabriel Dereppe, New York and Paris, 1944 [Brummer index card N5935 in the Cloisters Library and Archives, New York]; sold to Joseph Brummer, New York, 29 March 1944 [see source cited above]; sold for $4,000 to the Art Institute, 1944 [according to incoming receipt in Registrar’s file].

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