Germany, Boppard-am-Rhein, Carmelite Church, North nave, Tree of Jesse Window
1444
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain and olive-green enamel
147.3 x 73.7 (58 x 29)
Many replacements; some abrasion
Provenance: Count Hermann Pückler, Muskau; Count Pückler-Branitz, Muskau; Friedrich Spitzer, Paris; A. Huber, Zurich; Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York
Bibliography: Catalogue des objets d’art et de haute curiosité composant l’importante et précieuse collection Spizer [sale cat., 33 rue de Villejust, 17 April-16 June] (Paris, 1893), supplement “Vitraux,” No. 3359; Joseph L. Fischer, “Drei siiddeutsche Glasgemiilde aus der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts,” Zeitschrift fur Alte und Neue Glasmälerei (1913), pl. opp. 49; Paul Frankl, “Das Passionfenster im Bemer Munster und der Glasmaler Hans Acker von Ulm,” Anzeiger fur Schweizerische Altertumskiinde, NF 40 (1938), 242; Jane Hayward, “Stained Glass Windows from the Carmelite Church at Boppard-am-Rhein, a Reconstruction of the Glazing Program of the North Nave,” Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal 2 (1969), 75-115, figs. 9, 25; Barnet (1986), 41; Tutag and Hamilton (1987), 17, 21.
Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan)
Object/Accession: 40.521 Founders Society Purchase, Anne E. Shipman Stevens Bequest Fund
Inscription: jermia pp frotea iino dii xliiii