The Last Token: A Christian Martyr

Inscription: Signed and inscribed: (lower right) Gab. MAX; (lower center) Ein Grüs[s] (a salute)

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, New York (by 1876–d. 1887)

New York. National Academy of Design and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "New York Centennial Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Selected from the Private Art Galleries," 1876, no. 202 (lent by Catharine L. Wolfe).

THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT.

"A Last Greeting." Aldine 8 (February 1876), pp. 53, 60, ill. [see Ref. Rabinow 1998].

Cicerone. "Private Galleries: Collection of Miss Catharine L. Wolfe." Art Amateur 2 (March 1880), p. 76.

"The Fine Arts: Recent Gifts to the Metropolitan Museum." Critic (April 16, 1887), p. 194.

Montezuma [Montague Marks]. "My Note Book." Art Amateur 16 (May 1887), p. 122.

Walter Rowlands. "The Miss Wolfe Collection." Art Journal, n.s., (January 1889), p. 13.

Josephine L. Allen and Elizabeth E. Gardner. A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1954, p. 66.

Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 237, ill.

Rebecca A. Rabinow. "Catharine Lorillard Wolfe: The First Woman Benefactor of the Metropolitan Museum." Apollo 147 (March 1998), pp. 51, 54 n. 25, fig. 10, remarks that this was one of the most acclaimed paintings in the New York Centennial Loan Exhibition of 1876 at the National Academy of Design.

Karin Althaus in Gabriel von Max. Ed. Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker. Exh. cat., Frye Art Museum. Seattle, 2011, p. 64, fig. 47, illustrates a study for the painting in the Shiraz collection.

This work may not be lent.