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Scenes from the Life of Saint Ursula: The Baptism of Saint Ursula and the Virgins in Rome (above); Saint Ursula and the Virgins Depart from Basel (below)
Medium/Technique
Oil on panel
Dimensions
127.3 x 54 cm (50 1/8 x 21 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of George H. Edgell
Accession Number41.707
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
ProvenanceBy 1826, Werner Moritz von Haxthausen (b. 1780 - d. 1842), Cologne and Bad Neuhaus an der Saale, Germany [see note 1]; after 1862, Guttenburg family, Bad Neuhaus an der Saale. 1941, William Randolph Hearst (b. 1863 - d. 1951), New York and Los Angeles; March 25, 1941, Hearst sale, Hammer Galleries, New York, lot 1427-338, to George H. Edgell, Boston; gift of George H. Edgell to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 9, 1941)
NOTES:
[1] This painting (along with MFA no. 51.2398) belonged to a series of eight (?) panels illustrating scenes from the life of St. Ursula. Six remained together until the time of the the Hearst auction in 1941, at which time they were further dispersed. Another panel from this cycle is today in the Steinmetz collection, Darmstadt, Germany. See Hiltrud Kier and Frank Günter Zehnder, Lust und Verlust II, Corpus-Band zu Kölner Gemäldesammlungen 1800-1860 (1998), pp. 305-306, nos. 157-165.
NOTES:
[1] This painting (along with MFA no. 51.2398) belonged to a series of eight (?) panels illustrating scenes from the life of St. Ursula. Six remained together until the time of the the Hearst auction in 1941, at which time they were further dispersed. Another panel from this cycle is today in the Steinmetz collection, Darmstadt, Germany. See Hiltrud Kier and Frank Günter Zehnder, Lust und Verlust II, Corpus-Band zu Kölner Gemäldesammlungen 1800-1860 (1998), pp. 305-306, nos. 157-165.