Saint John the Baptist

1370/80

French, possibly Provence

Status: On View, Gallery 237
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Title: Saint John the Baptist
Place: France (Object Probably 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.: 1370–1380
Medium: Alabaster
Dimensions: 66.7 × 22.9 × 15.2 cm (26 1/4 × 9 × 6 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1947.391
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“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, no. 16, ill.

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, Inc., 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.

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