Saint Gangolf Artist: Peter Strüb the Younger (Master of Messkirch) (German, ca. 1500–1543)

ca. 1535–40

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

26 5/16 × 8 3/16 × 1 in. (66.8 × 20.8 × 2.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Walter Bareiss, B.S. 1940S

Accession Number

1954.43.1

Culture

German

Period

16th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Stadtpfarrkirche St. Martin, Messkirch, Baden-Württemberg, Germany [see note 1]. Joseph Otto Entres (1804–1870), Munich; by inheritance to Dr. Franz Ludwig von Baumann (1846–1915), Donaueschingen, the late 1880s [see note 2]. Professor Schleibner, Munich. M. Orterer Collection, Munich. with Julius Böhler, Munich, by 1918; sold to the Bum Collection (Fabrikant Bum), Cottbus, Germany, later Terrebonne, Montreal, by 1922, and by descent; sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 5 November 1942, lot 45; Walter Bareiss (1919 –2007), New York, by 1954; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1954

Note 1: Saint Gangolf oginally formed part of the side altar of the church, alongside Saint Gregory the Great (YUAG 1954.43.1). The panels were either sold in the late 17th century or removed during the baroque renovations of the church in 1772

Note 2: Dr. von Baumann was married to the daughter of Joseph Entres, Silvanie von Baumann (née Entres) (1848–1924), in 1973
Bibliography
  • Anna Moraht-Fromm and Hans Westhoff, Der Meister von Messkirch: Forschungen zur südwestdeutschen Malerei des 16. Jahrhunderts (Ulm, Germany: Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1997), 178, 181–83, fig. 84a
  • Katherine Neilson and Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972), no. 7, ill
  • Edzard Baumann, "Two Panels by the Master of Messkirch from the Collegiate Church of Messkirch," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 27 (April, 1962), 49–54, fig. 1
  • Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, Paintings by Old Masters: The Private Collection of a Czechoslovakian Gentleman, sale cat. (November 5, 1942), lot 45
  • Heinrich Feurstein, Der Meister von Messkirch im Lichte der letzten Funde und Forschungen (Freiburg Im Breisgau, Germany: Lais Systems GmbH, 1936), 146, no. 74, fig. 56
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

portraits

Subject

man saint

Inscriptions

Upper right; "O domini Jesu vili" and across bottom "Sanct' Gangolfus M"

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