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(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Saint Dorothea
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Saint Dorothea

sculptor
Dateabout 1510-1520
Place MadeBavaria, Germany, Europe
MediumPolychromed and gilded lindenwood
Dimensions58.5 cm (23 1/16 in.)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberS28w3.8
eMuseum ID728740
Original NumberS28w9-s
EmbARK ObjectID12792
TMS Source ID1850
Last Updated8/14/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesMorris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), p. 166.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 259. (as Bavarian, early 16th century)
Anneliese Harding. German Sculpture in New England Museums (Boston, 1972), p. 83. (as South Tyrol, end of the 15th century, very provincial)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), pp. 97-100, no. 131. (as Bavarian, about 1510-1520)
ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner with seven other simillar statues of saints, which likely were all once part of a single altarpiece (museum nos. S38w3.1-8), from the art dealer Theodor Einstein & Co., Munich for 980 marks on 16 August 1897 through her husband, John L. Gardner, Jr. (1837–1898).
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Unknown
about 1480
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Unknown
about 1510-1520
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Unknown
about 1510-1520
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Unknown
about 1510-1520
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Unknown
about 1510-1520
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Unknown
about 1510-1520
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Unknown
about 1510-1520
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Unknown
about 1510-1520
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Unknown
about 1500-1510
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Unknown
about 1500-1510
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Unknown
about 1480
(c) 2023 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Unknown
about 1450-1500