Hans Baldung Grien
Saint John on Patmos
c. 151187.3 x 75.6 cm
Oil, gold, and white metal on spruce
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Rogers and Fletcher Funds; The Vincent Astor Foundation, The Dillon Fund, The Charles Engelhard Foundation, Lawrence A. Fleischman, Mrs. Henry J. Heinz II, The Willard T. C. Johnson Foundation Inc., Reliance Group Holdings Inc., Baron H. H. Thys
Provenance
Church of the Order of Saint John in Jerusalem, Grünen Wörth, near Strasbourg (1511–1633)
cloister destroyed and possessions placed in storage, 1633–about 1687
relocated to the church in the monastery of Saint Mark, Strasbourg, 1687–at least 1741, inv. nr. 25
possessions dispersed during the French Revolution, after 1789
a village church, Alsace (until shortly after 1870)
Dr. Georges-Joseph Wimpfen, Colmar (shortly after 1870–d. 1879)
his son, Général Joseph-Émile Georges Wimpfen, Paris (1879–?until d. 1949)
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, until 1955; sold to Becker
Dr. Heinrich Becker, Dortmund (1955–71)
sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 December 1971, nr. 28, sold for £120,000 to Virch
with Claus Virch, Paris, 1971–83; on extended loan to the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1975–83; sold to Thaw
with Eugene Thaw, New York, 1983; sold to MMA
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Other works by Hans Baldung Grien
Gaius Mucius Scaevola
1531
1531
Madonna and Child
1539
1539
St. Anne with the Christ Child, the Virgin, and St. John the Baptist
c. 1511
c. 1511
Maria with Child and an Angel
The Crucifixion of Christ