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Unidentified

Crucifixion with Longinus Piercing Christ’s Side

1519

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Unidentified

Crucifixion with Longinus Piercing Christ’s Side

1519

Physical Qualities White reamy glass, yellow silver stain, and paint, 8 7/8 in. diam. (22.7 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Saidie A. May
Object Number 1941.399.1a
These six round stained glass windows (roundels) from the early sixteenth century were acquired in the Netherlands by Horace Walpole (1717-1797), famed collector, author, and son of Britain’s first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. Horace Walpole collected over 450 pieces of stained glass and had them placed in windows throughout the Gothic castle known as Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, England. In 1842, much of the glass was dispersed during an estate sale organized by Walpole’s heir, the Earl of Waldegrave. Eventually, these six roundels were combined with various stained glass fragments to form two panels. In 1941, Baltimore collector Saidie A. May purchased the two stained glass panels at the monumental sale of art and antiquities from the William Randolph Hearst collection held at Gimbels department store in New York City. She had the panels separated to form individual windows, which she subsequently donated to the BMA. The six roundels and surrounding stained glass fragments have now been restored and reunited as two panels. The research, conservation, and installation of this stained glass panel were made possible with the generous support of The Richard C. von Hess Foundation.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1941; The Baltimore Museum of Art on extended loan, 1941; Saidie A. May by purchase, 1941; Gimbel's, New York; William Randolph Hearst, New York, by purchase 1927; Joseph Brummer, New York; Harding, London, after 1924; Sneyd Family, Keele Hall, Staffordshire, after 1842; Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, by purchase 1747-1750
Strawberry Hill sale, 1842.
"Old English and French Furniture, Porcelain and Objects of Art being a portion of the Sneyd Heirlooms removed from Keele Hall, Staffordshire," Christie's, London, 26 June 1924, lot 64.
"Catalogue of the Collections of William Randolph Hearst," Greenville, NY: C. W. Post Center of Long Island University, Special Collections Library, ms. [International Studio Art Corp.], 1939, vol. III [Stained Glass], lot no. 138, art. 23
"Art Objects and Furnishings from the William Randolph Hearst Collection," Gimbel Brothers (with Saks Fifth Avenue and Hammer Galleries), New York, 1941, lot 138-23.
C. J. Berserik, "Niet-monumentaal gebrandschilderd glas en ontwerpen uit Leiden, ca. 1480-1545, een catalogue," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leiden, 1982, part I, no. 13, fig. 2.
Michael Peover, 'Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, Horace Walpole's Stained Glass,' "Country Life," 26 October 1995, pp. 54-57.
'Stained Glass before 1700 in American Collection: Silver-Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels (Corpus Vitrearum Checklist IV),' "Studies in the History of Art," Vol. 39. WDC: National Gallery of Art, p. 89, ill.

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