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image of A Bishop Saint (Burchard of Würzburg?)
Tilman Riemenschneider (artist)
German, c. 1460 - 1531
A Bishop Saint (Burchard of Würzburg?), c. 1515/1520
linden wood with traces of polychromy
overall: 82.3 x 47.2 x 30.2 cm (32 3/8 x 18 9/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1961.1.1
On View

Exhibition History

1906
Ausstellung von Werken alter Kunst...(Silberne Hochzeit des allerhochsten Kaiserpaares), Redern'schen Palais, Berlin, 1906, no. 178, repro.
1945
Loan to display with the permanent collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1945-1961.
1956
German Drawings: Masterpieces from Five Centuries, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (last venue of four, travelling exhibition circulated by Smithsonian Institution), San Francisco, 1956, not in cat.
1999
Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages, National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1999-2000, no. 44, repro., as Bishop Saint.
2004
Tilman Riemenschneider: Werke Seiner Blütezeit, Mainfränkisches Museum Würzburg, Würzburg, 2004, no. 17.

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