Panel from the Saint Catherine of Siena Altarpiece for Saint Catherine’s Church, Nuremburg: Saint Leonard

ArtistWorkshop of Hans Pleydenwurff German, circa 1425–1472

Datecirca 1464

MediumMixed technique painting; heavy canvas on panel, probably pine

Dimensions48 x 19 1/8 in. (121.9 x 48.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.63

On View

On view

ProvenancePaul Graupe, Paris; seized July 1, 1940 [1] by Angerer for Hermann Göring and taken to Berlin [MCCP July 29, 1945, no. 5529/B’gaden 484 as “Pleydenworff (sic), a Saint”] [2]’ restituted to Paris September 25, 1947 with 21st shipment; restituted June 22, 1948 to Paul Graupe’s son; Thomas Grange, London; private collection, London; sold to/through [3] David M. Koetser, New York, to Samuel H. Kress; given to NCMA, 1960.

[1] See letter dated May 21, 2001 to John Coffey from Yvon Roe d’Albert, Directeur des Archives, Ministere des Affaires Etrangères, Paris. Confirmed by Nancy Yeide, NGA, by phone January 11, 2006. This painting is not recorded in ERR cards under Graupe [code “Grp”].

[2] Under “Presumed Owner,” the card states “France unknown owner, id. acc. to statement by Mr. Hofer.” Under “Identifying Marks” are noted: “French customs stamp;” “F;” and “G 583.” A photograph made from the Munich Central Collecting Point negative 5529 confirms the identification of this painting as that now belonging to the NCMA.

[3] The “private” collector mentioned by Koetser may actually have been Grange.
Published ReferencesDie Gemälde des 13, bis 16. Jahrhunderts (Katalog des Germanischen Nationalmuseums zu Nürnberg, 1937), illus. figs. 29 and 30.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 128, illus. (b-w) 129.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter-Spring 1964), listed 58.

Colin Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian (Oxford: 1977), 6-7, illus. fig. 7.

Nancy H. Yeide, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection (Dallas: Laurel Publishing, LLC, 2009), listed p. 417 as cat. no. A1521, illus. (b-w) 207.

Robert Suckale, Der Erneuerung der Malkunst vor Dürer, Vol. I (Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2009), 165, illus. (color) 166, fig. 256.

Patrick Golenia, Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier, and Isabelle Le Masne de Chermont, Paul Graupe (1881–1953) (Köln: Böhlau Verlag GmbH & Cie, 2016), 187. Illus. (color), 186, fig. 172.

“Werkstatt Hans Pleydenwurffs,” in Die Gemälde des Spätmittelalters im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Vol. 2, Daniel Hess, Dagmar Hirschfelder and Katja von Baum, eds. (Regensburg: Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 2019),425, illus. (color) 425.
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