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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1950.41
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
The Agony in the Garden
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1490
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228795

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
125.1 x 52.39 cm (49 1/4 x 20 5/8 in.)
framed: 142.88 x 64.45 cm (56 1/4 x 25 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ehrich Galleries, New York, sold; to Paul J. Sachs, May 1915, gift; to Fogg, 1950

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1950
Object Number
1950.41
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1919), no. 57, repr. opp. p. 267
  • Alfred Stange, Deutsche Malerei der Gotik: Nordwestdeutschland in der Zeit von 1450 bis 1515, Deutscher Kunstverlag (Berlin, 1954), p. 47
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 89, repr.
  • Nicole Veronee-Verhaegen, "A retrouver: un 'Saint Sébastien' par le Maître à la Vue de Sainte-Gudule", Bulletin (Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique) (1989-1991), 1-3, p. 179, fig. 2
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)
  • An Exhibition of Old Master Paintings, auct. cat., Adam Williams Fine Art, Ltd. (New York, NY, 2003), p. 1

Exhibition History

  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967

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