Reliquary Bust of Saint Margaret of Antioch

1. Benedictine church of Saints Peter and Paul, Weißenburg (Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin), 1465-70, possibly as part of a retable [based on a plaster cast of this and three other busts in the Musée de l'Oeuvre de Notre Dame, Strasbourg catalogued in 1868 as being from Saints Peter and Paul, Wissembourg; see Weinberger 1943, Goetz and Rogers 1944, and Rosenfeld 1995]. Émile Gavet, Paris, by 1894 [see Molinier 1894]. Félix Doistau, Paris, by 1909; sold, his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 20–21, 1909, lot 414, as "Buste-applique," to M. (Paul?) Drey for 4,600 francs [see Gazette de l’hôtel Drouot, November 27, 1909]. William Randolph Hearst, New York and San Simeon, by 1910 [see Weinberger 1943, Goetz and Rogers, 1944, Rosenfeld 1986, Recht 1987, and Gillerman 2001]. Gimbel Brothers (agent for Armand Hammer Galleries), New York, by 1943 [see invoice, 23 September 1943, and letter from Meyric Rogers to Oswald Goetz, 9 August 1943, in curatorial file]. Sold by Gimbel Brothers to the Art Institute, 1943.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Minneapolis Institute of Arts, "Masterpieces of Sculpture," 2 November – 11 December 1949, cat. 23.
• Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum, "Spätgotik am Oberrhein," 4 July – 5 October 1970, cat. 25.
• Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, "Decorative-Applied Art from Late Antiquity to the Late Gothic Style," 14 May - 14 July 1990, and the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 14 August - 14 October 1990, cat. 68.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, September 25, 2004-January 3, 2005, cat. 56.
• Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Niclaus Gerhaert, der Bildhauer des späten Mittelalters, October 27, 2011-March 4, 2012, no. 9c; travelled to Strasbourg, Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame, March 30-July 7, 2012, cat. 5

• Émile Molinier, Collection Émile Gavet (Paris, 1894), p. 27, no. 71.
• "Revue des Ventes: Collection de M. Doistau," Gazette de l’hôtel Drouot, 18, 125 (November 27, 1909).
• Wilhelm Vöge, "Über Nicolaus Gerhaert und Nicolaus von Hagenau (?)" Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst 24 (1913), pp. 98–101.
• Stefan Roller, “Niclaus Gerhaert: Neue Impulse für die spätgotische Skulptur,” Niclaus Gerhaert der Bildhauer des Späten Mittelalters, Exh. cat. (Liehieghaus, 2012), p. 57, (ill.), p. 250, ill. 252, p. 253, (ill.).
• Theodor Demmler, "Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Bildhauers Nicolaus Gerhaert von Leiden," Jahrbuch der Preuszischen Kunstsammlungen 24 (1921), p. 29.
• Otto Schmidt, Oberrheinische Plastik im ausgehenden Mittelalter (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1924), pp. 19–20, pl. 18.
• Wilhelm Pinder, Die Deutsche Plastik vom ausgehenden mittelalter bis zum ende der Renaissance 2 (Wildpark-Potsdam, 1929), pp. 357, 360.
• Otto Wertheimer, Nicolaus Gerhaert, seine Kunst und seine Wirkung (Berlin, 1929), pp. 75–76, 99, figs. 60, 62.
• L. Fischel, "Nouvelles attributions au maître de la vierge de Dangolsheim," Archives Alsaciennes d’historie de l’art 15 (1936), pp. 68–69.
• Martin Weinberger, "A Rediscovered Gothic Bust," The Compleat Collector 3, 10 (August 1943), p. 2 ff, pls. 1, 5.
• "An Expert Eye Rescues a Rare Treasure of Art," Chicago Daily Tribune (December 2, 1943).
• "Remodeled Bust of St. Margaret at Art Institute," Chicago Sun (January 31, 1944).

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