Summary for Saint Anne with the Christ Child, the Virgin, and Saint
KRESS COLLECTION DIGITAL ARCHIVE Hans Baldung Grien, 1484/1485-1545 Saint Anne with the Christ Child, the Virgin, and Saint John the Baptist KRESS CATALOGUE NUMBER IDENTIFIER K1972 1793 ARTIST NATIONALITY Baldung Grien, Hans, 1484/1485-1545 German DATE MEDIUM c. 1511 oil on hardboard, transferred from panel TYPE OF OBJECT Painting DIMENSIONS painted surface: 87 x 75 cm (34 1/4 x 29 1/2 in) LOCATION National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia PROVENANCE Church of the Order of Saint John in Jerusalem, Grünen Wörth, near Strasbourg, c. 1511 until probably c. 1633, and later in the Order's church in the cloister of Saint Marx, Strasbourg, probably c. 1687 until at least 1741. [1] Village church, Alsace; acquired shortly after 1870 by Dr. Georges-Joseph Wimpfen [d. 1879], Colmar; by inheritance to his daughter, Marie Emélie Jeanne Siben [d. 1951], Paris and Zimmerbach, near Colmar. [2] (Fritz Frankhausen, Basel), 1952; [3] (Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York), by 1953; purchased 1953 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA. [1] Gert von der Osten. "Ein Altar des Hans Baldung Grien aus dem Jahre 1511 -- und eine Frage nach verschollenen Werken des Malers." Zeitschrift des deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 31 (1977), 52-53, cites two sets of documents. The first, Archives départementales du Bas-Rhin, Strasbourg, no. H2158, are records of payment in the accounts of the Order of Saint John, under the heading, "Uff die Kirch": "It. X G(ulden) NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON, DC, GALLERY ARCHIVES Page 1 KRESS COLLECTION DIGITAL ARCHIVE meister Hans baldung dem maler vff die tafel zu malen.
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