Pietà | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1450

On view, 2nd floor, European Art

Medium: Polychrome wood
Dimensions: 16 × 14 1/8 × 10 1/2 in. (40.6 × 35.9 × 26.7 cm)
Credit Line: Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896, Fund
Accession Number: 1956.17.4
Culture: German, Southern Rhine
Period: 15th century
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

purchased by Mathias Komor (Fine Arts & Antiquities, New York) in southern Germany (–1956); Yale University Art Gallery (1956– )

Bibliography

Ian McClure and Carol Snow, "Inside Art: Teaching Technical Art History at the Yale University Art Gallery," in "Teaching with Art," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2013), 76, fig. 2

Dorothy Gillerman, Gothic Sculpture in America: The New England Museums, 1 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1989), 324, no. 240, ill

Anneliese Harding, German Sculpture in New England Museums (Boston: Goethe Institute, 1972), 31; 87, no. 31

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