The Visitation
Unknown German, German
about 1490-1510
Polychromed wood with gesso and gilt
Overall: 28 × 17 3/8 in. (71.1 × 44.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Anton Adolph Raven, Class of 1937H
S.966.161
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Sculpture
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Course History
ARTH 15.1, Gothic Art, Jane Carroll, Spring 2019
HIST 96.39, Saints and Material Devotion, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Fall 2021
HIST 96.39, Saints and Relics, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Fall 2021
Exhibition History
Late Medieval and Renaissance Prints, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 8-December 15, 1974.
New Selections from the College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 23-June 30, 1979.
Permanent Exhibition of Selected Paintings/Objects from the College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1975.
Publication History
Anneliese Harding, German Sculpture in New England Museums, 1989, p. 48, no. 71.
Dorothy Gillerman, Gothic Sculpture in America, I. The New England Museums, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989, p. 348-349.
Provenance
Collection of Anton Adolph Raven (1895-1955, Dartmouth College Professor of English), Hanover, New Hampshire; bequeathed to present collection, 1966.
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