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image of The Baptism of Christ
Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altar (artist)
German, active c. 1475/1510
The Baptism of Christ, c. 1485/1500
oil on panel
painted surface: 104.3 x 169.7 cm (41 1/16 x 66 13/16 in.) support: 105.7 x 170.4 cm (41 5/8 x 67 1/16 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1961.9.78
On View
From the Tour: 15th and Early 16th-Century Germany
Object 5 of 8
1906Exhibition of Early German Art. Exh. cat. Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1906: 55.
1913Plietzsch, E. "Die `Ausstellung von Werken alter Kunst' in der Berliner Kgl. Akademie der Künste." Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst N.F. 25 (1913/1914): 228, repro. 225.
1917Friedeberger, H. "Die Sammlung Richard von Kaufmann-Berlin." Der Cicerone 9 (1917): 377.
1918"Die Versteigerung der Sammlung von Kaufmann." Der Cicerone. 10 (1918): 26.
1923Schaefer, Karl. Geschichte der Kölner Malerschule. Lübeck, 1923: 19.
1924Brockmann, Harald. Die Spätzeit der Kölner Malerschule. Der Meister von St. Severin und der Meister der Ursulalegende. Bonn and Leipzig, 1924: 53.
1925Reiners, Heribert. Die kölner Malerschule. Munich, Gladbach, Bonn and Leipzig, 1925: 182, 186-187, 190, pl. XXXVII.
1939Ring, Grete. "Die Gruppe der heiligen Agnes." Oud Holland 56 (1939): 39.
1940Boon, K. G. "Einige Opmerkingen naar aanleiding van Vroege Nederlandsche Schilders." Oud Holland 57 (1940): 101.
1941Rath, Karl vom. Der Meister des Bartholomäusaltares. Bonn, 1941: 52-57, 59-61, 125, no. 9, figs. 19-23.
1950Rath, Karl vom. "Meister des Bartholomäus-Altares." Thieme-Becker 1950, 37: 35.
1950Stange, Alfred. German Painting XIV-XVI Centuries. New York, Paris, and London, 1950: 25.
1952Stange, DMG 1952, 5: 66, fig. 135.
1952Fritz, Rolf. "Aquilegia. Die symbolische Bedeutung der Akelei." Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 14 (1952): 101, 109, no. 58, fig. 93.
1953Pieper, Paul. "Miniaturen des Bartholomäus-Meisters." Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 15 (1953): 149-152, 154, fig. 133.
1956Frankfurter, Alfred. "Crystal Anniversary in the Capital." Art News 55 (1956): 35.
1956Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Colllection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 124, no. 47, repro.
1959Levey, Michael. The German School. National Gallery Catalogues. London, 1959: 92.
1959Pieper, Paul. "Das Stundenbuch des Bartholomäus-Meisters." Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 21 (1959): 139, 155-157, figs. 75-76.
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 301, repro.
1960Broadley, Hugh T. German Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Nine in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 18, color repro.
1961Der Meister des Bartholomäus-Altares, der Meister des Aachener Altares. Kölner Maler der Spätgotik. Exh. cat. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1961: 27, 29, 91, no. 22, 92, no. 23.
1961Andree, Rolf, Helmut R. Leppien and Horst Vey. "Nachlese der Ausstellung `Kölner Maler der Spätgotik'." Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 23 (1961): 331-332.
1961Oswald, Fritz. "Die Darstellungen des Hl. Hieronymus beim Meister des Bartholomäusaltares." Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 23 (1961): 342, fig. 229.
1961Wallrath, Rolf. Exhibition review, "Kölner Maler der Spätgotik." Kunstchronik 14 (1961): 153, 155.
1962Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 66, color repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 112-113, repro.
1964Malkon, K. "Meister des Bartholomäusaltars." Kindlers Malerei Lexikon. 6 vols. Zurich, 1964-1971, Vol. 1, 1964: 214-215.
1964Steingräber, Erich. "Ein neu entdecktes Werk vom Meister des Bartholomäus-Altares." Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 26 (1964): 224, n. 6.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 86
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:104, color repro.
1967Stange, Alfred. Kritisches Verzeichnis der deutschen Tafelbilder vor Dürer. 3 vols. Munich, 1967: 1:85, no. 252.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 76, repro.
1969Montebello, Philippe de. "Master of the St. Bartholomew Altarpiece." Dictionary of Art. 5 vols. Toronto, London, Sydney, and Johannesburg, 1969: 4:13.
1969Osten, Gert von der and Horst Vey. Painting and Sculpture in Germany and the Netherlands 1500 to 1600. Harmondsworth, 1969: 138-139.
1970Herbst des Mittelalters. Spätgotik in Köln und am Niederrhein. Exh. cat. Kunsthalle, Cologne, 1970: 48, under no. 34.
1970Musper, Heinrich Theodor. Altdeutsche Malerei. Cologne, 1970: 11.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 224, repro. 225.
1977Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 8-10, fig. 10.
1983Wolff, Martha. German Art of the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: unpaginated, repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: no. 147, repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 256, repro.
1986Budde, Rainer. Köln und seine Maler 1300-1500. Cologne, 1986: 141-143, 258, no. 95, figs. 121, 122, color pl. 30.
1989Michaelis, Rainer. Deutsche Gemälde 14. - 18. Jahrhundert. Staatliche Museen au Berlin. Gemäldegalerie. Berlin, 1989: 82.
1990Dülberg, Angelica. Privatporträts. Geschichte und Ikonologie einer Gattung im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Berlin, 1990: 109, 200, no. 82, fig. 576.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 59, repro.
1993Hand, John Oliver, with the assistance of Sally E. Mansfield. German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1993: 133-140, color repro. 135.
1997Nürnberger, Ulrike. The Late Medieval Workshop of the Master of the St. Bartholomew Altar: An Investigation of Underdrawings and Paintings. Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1997: 244-260, no. 1.
2001Genie ohne Namen: Der Meister des Bartholomäus-Altars. Exh. cat. Wallraf Richartz Museum, Cologne, 2001: 446, no. 97, repro. (not in exh.).

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