St. Paul

Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1490-1525
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
61.8
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner

Dimensions

Overall Closed: 40mm × 42mm (4 × 4.2 cm)
Overall Open: 42mm × 82mm × 18mm (4.2 × 8.2 × 1.8 cm)

Description

Upper scene: St. Paul`s Conversion, Lower scene: St. Paul's Execution or the beheading of John the Baptist

Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription
Carved Latin inscription:

BENIAMIN LVP? RAPAX MANE COMEDAT PREDAM [around upper image]

CVM MIC?I CAPVT ABSCISV? ?VERIT VINVS TIBI APPAREBO [around lower image]

? [on banderole]

Catalogue Raisonné

Romanelli 44

Provenance

Provenance
J. and Solomon Goldschmidt, Frankfurt am Main, by purchase; Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 3, 1898 [number unknown]; Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest
Previous Owner(s)
J. and Solomon Goldschmidt
Raoul Heilbronner
Henry Walters

Subjects

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