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Four Scenes from the Gospels: the Descent from the Cross

Four Scenes from the Gospels: the Descent from the CrossSwitzerland, Lucerne, Convent of Rathausen, cloister
1592
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain, sanguine, and enamel
69.5 X 69.5 (27 3/8 X 27 3/8)
Quarters 3 and 4 of arms and mantling to the left replaced; many repaired cracks

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 William Randolph Hearst Collection

Arms: Quarterly; l per bend sinister in chief azure an Imperial orb or in base bendy of four vert and or (Fleckenstein); 2 gules a pair of antlers argent and thereon a lion rampant or; 3 and 4 are replaced by stopgaps; crest: (LEFT) on a barred helm to dexter a ducal coronet and therefrom a demi-vol charged as the base arms; (RIGHT) on a barred helm to dexter a cap gules banded or; mantling dexter and sinister of the colors
Inscriptions: above scene: Joseph Nimpt Jn[…] Von Kreutz Herab/ Der Mutter der Schmer[.] In Gab; below scene: Herr Heinrich Fleckenstein Ritter/ Schultheiss und Banerherr Loblich/ Statt Lucern Ano 1592
Attributed to Franz Fallenter

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

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