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Title:Saint Erhard
Date:1340–50
Culture:Austrian
Medium:Pot metal glass
Dimensions:36 x 17 1/4in. (91.4 x 43.8cm) with modern border: 36 1/4 × 19 × 5/8 in. (92.1 × 48.3 × 1.6 cm)
Classification:Glass-Stained
Credit Line:The Cloisters Collection, 1970
Object Number:1970.320
Inscription: S.ERHARDVS
From the choir and north chapel windows of the pilgrimage church of Saint Leonhard at Bad St. Leonhard im Lavanttal, near Klagenfurt (glass dispersed between 1863–1889; additional glass sold in 1929 and 1935); Ottmar Strauss 1878–1941, Cologne ; his fornced sale, Hugo Helbing, 21-24 May, 1935 (no. 278, unsold, remained w/ Strauss family) ; sale, Ottmar Strauss Estate, Galerie Epoques, Zurich (22-24 October 1942, no. 254) ; Franz Kieslinger d. 1955, Vienna (from 1942 ?) ; [ Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, Lucerne (sold 1970, as property of Kieslinger)]
The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Stained Glass of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, exhibited at the Cloisters," December 17, 1971–July 1, 1972.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Patterns of Collecting: Selected Acquisitions, 1965–1975," December 6, 1975–March 23, 1976.
Mise en vente de la succession Ottmar Strauss et de plusieurs collections particulières provenant châteaux connus. Meubles de tapisserie des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, tableaux du XIVe au XIXe siècles, sculptures de haute époque, objets d'Extreme-Orient, gravures, argenterie, porcelaines, tapisseries, etoffes, tapis.. Zurich, October 22–24, 1942. p. 22, no. 254 & pl. XIII.
Sammlung Geheimrat Ottmar Strauss, II. Teil: aus Haus Bayenthalgürtel 2 in Köln und aus Haus Heisterberg; Sammlung Schwarz, Berlin; Nachlass Geheimrat W. Preetorius, Mainz. Munich: Galerie Hugo Helbing, May 21–24, 1935. p. 31, no. 278.
"Departmental Accessions
." Annual Report of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 101 (July 1, 1970–June 30, 1971). p. 20.
Hayward, Jane. "Stained-Glass Windows." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 30, no. 3 (December 1971-January 1972). p. 131.
Raggio, Olga, ed. "Medieval Art and the Cloisters." Notable Acquisitions (Metropolitan Museum of Art) no. 1965/1975 (1975). p. 161.
Raggio, Olga, ed. Patterns of Collecting: Selected Acquisitions, 1965-1975; Explanatory Texts. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. p. 18.
Caviness, Madeline H., ed. Stained Glass Before 1700 in American Collections: New England and New York (Corpus Vitrearum Checklist I). Studies in the History of Art, Vol. 15. Washington, D.C.: National Art Gallery, 1985. p. 110.
Shepard, Mary B. Europe in the Middle Ages, edited by Charles T. Little, and Timothy B. Husband. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. pp. 122–23, pl. 113.
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