Hans Baldung Grien
St. Anne with the Christ Child, the Virgin, and St. John the Baptist
c. 151187 x 75.9 cm
Oil on wood transferred to hardboard
Signed center right on base of middle pillar of throne, in monogram: HBG
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 158
Provenance
Church of the Order of Saint John in Jerusalem, Grünen Wörth, near Strasbourg, c. 1511 until probably c. 1633, and later in the Order's church in the cloister of Saint Marx, Strasbourg, probably c. 1687 until at least 1741
village church, Alsace
acquired shortly after 1870 by Dr. Georges-Joseph Wimpfen (died 1879), Colmar
by inheritance to his daughter, Marie Emélie Jeanne Siben (died 1951), Paris and Zimmerbach, near Colmar
with Fritz Frankhausen, Basel, 1952
with Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, by 1953
purchased 1953 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1961 to NGA
Other works by Hans Baldung Grien
Madonna and Child
1539
1539
Saint John on Patmos
c. 1511
c. 1511
Maria with Child and an Angel
The Crucifixion of Christ
Pyramus and Thisbe