Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1490-1530
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J.H. Wade Fund
Object Number
1961.87
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall height x width: 5.7 × 4.8 cm (2 1/4 × 1 7/8 in.)
Description
Scenes from the Life of Saint James the Greater from the Golden Legend: Exterior scenes clockwise: Hermogenes flanked by two devils presented to St. James; St James watches Hermogenes, another male figure drop books into basket; Hermogenes and Philetus throw books into sea; St. James preaching; St. James with bound hands being led by Abiathar to Herod; St. James curing man of palsy
Inner lower: St James being presented to Herod
Inner upper scenes clockwise: St. James led by rope; man being beaten; Centre, foreground: St James baptizing Josias; beheading of St. James
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions:
SANCTVS SACRILEGI STAT IVDICIS ANTE TRIBVNAL [around lower scene]
GAV DENSPRO CRISTO IACOBVS SVBDIT CAPVT ENSI [around upper scene]
[source: Cleveland Museum of Art site]
SANCTVS SACRILEGI STAT IVDICIS ANTE TRIBVNAL [around lower scene]
GAV DENSPRO CRISTO IACOBVS SVBDIT CAPVT ENSI [around upper scene]
[source: Cleveland Museum of Art site]
Published References
Emile Molinier and Arthur Pabst, “Les sculptures en buis et pierre de Munich” La Collection Spitzer III (Paris: Maison Quantin, 1891), no. 13; Charles Mannheim, Catalogue des objets d’art et de haute curiosités, antiques, du moyen-âge à la renaissance, composant l’importante et précieuse collection Spitzer, dont la vente publique aura lieu à Paris (Paris: Imprimerie de l’Art, 1893), no. 2135; Charles Mannheim, Catalogue des objets d’art et de haute curiosité … composant la collection de feu M. Charles Stein (Paris, 1899), no. 87; Bourgeois frères sale, 1904: lot 1104;Cleveland Museum of Art, Twelve Additions to the Medieval Treasury (Cleveland: The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Apr. 1972)
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 49
Provenance
Provenance
Frédéric Spitzer, Paris; Charles Stein, Paris; Bourgeois Frères, Cologne; Mrs. Otto Kahn, New York; Joseph Brummer, New York; Blumka Gallery, New York
Previous Owner(s)
Frédéric Spitzer
Charles Stein
Bourgeois Frères
Otto H. Kahn
Joseph Brummer Collection