National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: The Dead Christ Supported by an Angel (The Trinity)
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Provenance

(J. and S. Goldschmidt, Frankfurt-am-Main);[1] Ralph Harman [1873-1931] and Mary Batterman [d. 1951] Booth, Grosse Point, Michigan, by 1923, as Nottingham school;[2] gift 1942 to NGA.

[1] Mary Batterman Booth to John Walker, undated letter, but with material from late 1942, in NGA curatorial files.

[2] Theodor Demmler, "German Gothic Sculpture in the Ralph N.[sic] Booth Collection, Detroit," Art in America 11 (June 1923): 166, fig. 3.

Exhibition History

1923
Ralph H. Booth Loan Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1923, no cat.

Bibliography

1923
Demmler, Theodor. "German Gothic Sculpture in the Ralph N. [sic] Booth Collection, Detroit." Art in America 11 (June 1923): 165-170, especially 166, fig. 3.
1923
Swarzenski, Georg. "Insinuationes Divinae Pietatis." In Festschrift für Adolf Goldschmidt zum 60. Geburtstag am 15. Januar 1923. Leipzig, 1923: 65-74, pl. 13, fig. 1.
1927
Panofsky, Erwin. "`Imago Pietatis.' Ein Beitrag zur Typengeschichte des `Schmerzenmanns' und der `Maria Mediatrix'." Festschrift für Max J. Friedländer zum 60. Geburtstag. Leipzig, 1927: 261-308, especially 282.
1942
"National Gallery Gets 3 Sculptures." New York Times 6 December, 1942.
1943
Swarzenski, Georg. "A Gothic Alabaster Annunciation." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts 41 (1943): 12-19, fig. 6.
1948
Recent Additions to the Ralph and Mary Booth Collection. Washington, 1948: unpaginated, repro.
1949
Seymour, Charles. Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1949: 173, note 11, repro. 46-48.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 165.
1967
Osten, Gert von der. "Engelpietà." In Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte. Vol. 5. Stuttgart, 1967: column 612.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 145.
1975
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 625, fig. 959.
1977
Legner, Anton. "Bilder und materialien in der spätgotischen Kunstproduktion." Städel-Jahrbuch n.s., 6 (1977): 169-170, fig. 17 (reversed).
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 625, no. 966, repro., as Upper Rhenish School.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 188, repro.

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