Cleveland Museum of Art
Two Standing Apostles (probably Saint John the Evangelist and St. Paul)
Master of the Saint-Omer ApostlesLinkedCulture matchlcp-98ce2adc7e60
- Date
- c. 1430
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Culture
- Southern Netherlands or Northern France
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 453144
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The two sculptures come from an altarpiece in the cathedral of Saint Omer in northern France. Four other figures have been preserved there, and possibly one at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The workshop was probably located in Bruges, in what is now Belgium. Sculpture was the leading art genre at that time. The specialized workshops obtained the stone alabaster from distant quarries, in this case from the area of Würzburg in Bavaria (Germany), to form it intricately and deliver it to customers in almost all of Europe. Alabaster is very soft; after 20 minutes of treatment with water the surface will dissolve.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Provenance
- Saint-Omer Cathedral, France | 1864-: Collection of Augustin Ozenfant (1834-1894), Lille, France, by descent to Chanoine Paul Bernard | -1962: Chanoine Paul Bernard, Lille, France | -1971: Dr. Albert Habart, Calais, France | -1973: Julius Böhler, Munich | 1973-: David and Louise Carter, New Haven, CN | -2022: Sam Fogg, London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2022-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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