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Four Scenes from the Gospels: Christ in the House of Mary and Martha

Four Scenes from the Gospels: Christ in the House of Mary and MarthaSwitzerland, Lucerne, Convent of Rathausen, cloister
1616
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain, sanguine, and enamel
68.0 x 70.5 (26 3/4 x 27 3/4)
Left half of lower inscription and lower part of arms probably modern

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: 45.21.38

Arms: Quarterly; l or in fess two crows displayed proper; 2 gules a c,ross argent on a triple mount vert between two stars of six points or; 3 azure two fish tools per saltire proper; 4 or a cockatrice sable (Augustin Hofmann, Abbot of Einsidlen); crest: on a stole floating, an abbot’s mitre and crozier proper
Inscriptions: above scene: Maria hat den besten Theil/ Martha bleibt der Sorge mancherlei/ IO cap:; on halo of male saint: MEINRADVS ORA PRO; below scene: Augustin, van Gottes Gnade / Abbte des Wirdigen Gotzhus/ Einsidlen ´Ano Domini 1616 / MM
MM for Michael Muller II

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

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