Germany, Nuremberg, Tucher House in Grasersgasse, Garden Chapel
c. 1502-1506
Pot metal; flashed and white glass with silver stain; abrasion
a 1: 78 x 36.5 (30 3/4 x 14 3/8); b 1: 79 X 36 (31 1/8 X 14 1/4); 117.6 X 78 (46 1/4 x 30 3/4) overall
Two losses in Saint Andrew; cusped arch above Saint Sixtus severely damaged
Provenance: Baron Bibra, 1830s; A. Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, to 1 June 1929; William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles, to 1954
Bibliography: Nuremberg Stadtarchiv, Tucher-Archiv, Jungere Linie, Bihl. E 29, 117 (early 19th-century drawing of chapel with glass in situ; reprod. Grote, 1961); Nuremberg Stadtarchiv, Petz-Archiv, auction list c. 1835; C.W. Post Catalogue (1939), vols. 101-104, lot no. 141-16; Forest Lawn Archives (1956), lot no. 141-16; Hartmut Scholz, “Werkstatt-Praxis in der Nurnberger Glasmälerei der Durerzeit” (Ph.D. diss., Stuttgart, 1988, 100-102); R. et L., “Vorzugliche Glasgemiilde und Limosins im Besitz der von Tucher’schen Familie in Nurnberg,” Kunst-Blatt 14 (1833), 73; Hearst sale (1941), 329, lot no. 141- 16, ill.; Ludwig Grote, Die Tucher: Bildnis einer Patrizierfamilie (Munich, 1961), 76, Pl. 49.
Collection: Forest Lawn (Glendale, California)
Object/Accession: FL lots 28, 29 and 84
a 1. Saint Andrew with the cross saltire; b 1. Saint Sixtus with his tiara and staff, and alms bag; a 2, b 2, A and B 3-6, A/B 4. Trefoil heads and tracery lights with ball flower and grape vine ornament with owls; A/B 3. Head of Christ
Hirschvogel Workshop (?), after drawings by Albrecht Durer (?)