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Four Scenes from the Gospels: the Adoration of the Magi

Four Scenes from the Gospels: the Adoration of the MagiSwitzerland, Lucerne, Convent of Rathausen, cloister
1592
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain, sanguine, and enamel
68.4 x 70.2 (26 7/8 x 27 5/8)
Numerous repaired cracks; donor lower right may be restored

Provenance: James Meyer, Sairit Gall, before 1869; James A. Garland, Boston, to 1924; William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles, to 1945
Bibliography: Hearst ms. (1942), nos. 248, 249, 250 and 263; Jose Schneller, “Kloster Rathausen,” Geschichtesfreund 2 (1845); Jose Schneller, “Kloster Rathausen,î Geschichtesfreund 9 (1853); Johann Rudolf Rahn, “Die Glasgemälde im Kreuzgange des Klosters Rathausen” in Der Geschichtesfreund Mitteilungen des historischen Vereins der funf Orte 37 (Einsiedeln, 1882), 193-267, no. 11; Hans Lehmann, “Geschichte der Glasmälerei in der Schweiz,î Mitteilungen der Antiquarischen Gesellschaft in Zurich 26 (Zurich, 1906), fasc. 4-6; Garland sale (1924), n.p., no. 335-338; Geschichte der Luzerner Glasmälerei von den Anfangen bis zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts, Luzern Geschichte und Kulture 3, no. 5 (Lucerne, 1941), 145-151; Adolphe Reinle, “Das Ehemalige Kloster der Zisterziensrinnen,î Die Kunstdenkmaler der Kantons Luzern 5 in Die Kunstdenkmaler der Schweiz (Basel, 1946); Xavier van Moos, “Das ehemalige Kloster Rathausen, ” Die Kunstdenkmaler des Kantons Luzern 1 in Die Kunstmaler der Schweiz (Basel, 1946), 287-295; Jenny Schneider, “Zeugnisse schweizerischer Glasmälerei in amerikanischen Museen,” Zeitschrift fur schweizerische Archiiologie und Kunstgeschichte 19 (1959), 96-98; Deborah Kraak, “The Transfiguration from the Cistercian Cloisters of Rathausen ” (M.A. thesis, New York University, 1981), 1-25, ill.

Collection: Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, California)
Object/Accession: 45.21.23

Arms: Quarterly; l and 4 or a plowshare azure; 2 and 3 per fess in chief azure a lion rampant couped or in base chequy of argent and gules (Holdemeyer); crest: (LEFT) on a barred helm to sinister a demi-man garbed in the first with the charge upon his breast; (RIGHT) on a barred helm to dexter a demi-lion rampant or; mantling
Inscriptions: above scene: Die Wysen uss Dem Morgelandt / Gold Mirhen Wierauch gopfert had.; below scene: H. Niclaus Holdermeier Probst Zu/ Zurzach Und Chorher Der Gestift zu/Munster Im Ergeuw Anno 1592; between Christ Child and kneeling Magi: FF
FF for Franz Fallenter (1580-c. l611)
Published as (A) in Four Scenes from the Gospels, Checklist III, pps. 72-73.

Entry From: Checklist III Filed Under: California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum

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