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Saint Bartholomew and Saint Philip
Israhel van Meckenem (German, about 1440/45–1503)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession Number25.1391
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs 297 (I/II); Bartsch 082; Geisber 197
ProvenanceSaid to come from Strawberry Hill [see note 1]. 1841, François Debois (d. about 1845; Lugt 985), Paris; November 26-30, 1844, Debois sale, Paris, lot 664. Hermann Weber (b. 1817 - d. 1854; Lugt 1383), Bonn; September 17-20, 1855, posthumous Weber sale, Weigel, Leipzig, lot 87. The Albertina, Vienna; deaccessioned by the Albertina as a duplicate; May 25-27, 1925, Albertina duplicates sale, Boerner, Leipzig, lot 932, to P. and D. Colnaghi, London; 1925, sold by Colnaghi to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 1, 1925)
NOTES:
[1] Part of a suite of six prints depicting the Twelve Apostles (MFA accession nos. 25.1391-25.1396). According to the catalogues of the 1855 Weber sale and 1925 Albertina sale, the suite came from Strawberry Hill; no mention is made of Strawberry Hill in the earlier Debois catalogue, however.
NOTES:
[1] Part of a suite of six prints depicting the Twelve Apostles (MFA accession nos. 25.1391-25.1396). According to the catalogues of the 1855 Weber sale and 1925 Albertina sale, the suite came from Strawberry Hill; no mention is made of Strawberry Hill in the earlier Debois catalogue, however.