Diptych Fragment: The Death of the Virgin

Provenance

Salomon collection, Berlin, before 1917; sold, Rudolph Lepke’s Kunst–Auctions–Haus, Berlin, May 15, 1917, Skulpturen–Sammlung aus Berliner Privatbesitz, lot 102. Harry Fuld (died 1932), Frankfurt, before 1932 [according to copy of donor card]; by descent to his widow, Lucie Mayer-Fuld (née Cajzago) and by extension to her second husband, Acatiu Mayer-Fuld, Berlin, Biarritz, and New York, 1932 [according to copy of incoming shipping receipt in curatorial file; see also letter from Hans Strauss to Ardelia Hall, April 12, 1950, copy in curatorial file]; sold, through Raphael Stora, to the Art Institute, 1942.

Diptych Fragment: The Death of the Virgin

Master of Kremsmünster

1375–1400

Accession Number

46218

Medium

Ivory

Dimensions

7 × 9.2 cm (2 3/4 × 3 5/8 in.)

Classification

relief

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Kate S. Buckingham Endowment