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A Bishop Saint with a Donor (Saint Louis of Toulouse?)

A Bishop Saint with a Donor (Saint Louis of Toulouse?)

early 1400s
tempera with raised and gilded gesso on wood
Framed: 191.4 x 127.3 x 14 cm (75 3/8 x 50 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.); Painted surface: 171.5 x 107 cm (67 1/2 x 42 1/8 in.); Panel: 178 x 117.2 cm (70 1/16 x 46 1/8 in.)
Gift of the Friends of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1927.197
Location: 110B Late Gothic

Description

The style of this painting suggests that it comes from Catalonia in northeastern Spain, though the identity of its artist remains unknown. The painting represents a youthful bishop-saint identifiable by a bishop’s symbols of authority, his miter and crozier. He wears rich vestments. Below, the figure in black represents the donor of the painting—likely a wealthy layperson rather than a cleric. The identity of the saintly bishop is speculated to be Saint Louis, Bishop of Toulouse, on the basis of his youth. Louis was consecrated Bishop of Toulouse in 1297, died six months later at the age of 23, and was canonized in 1317. His relics were moved in 1423 to Valencia and his cult flourished in Spain.
  • G. de Chastenet, Toulouse (1858); (Wildenstein, Paris); (Durlacher, New York)
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. Reproduced: p. 31 archive.org
    Tietze, Hans. Masterpieces of European Painting in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. Reproduced: P. 243; Mentioned: P. 325-326, no. 243
    Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. Reproduced: p. 27 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 396 archive.org
    “Gothic Art 1360-1440.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (September 1963): 174–215. Reproduced: P. 197, no. 20; Mentioned: P. 203, no. 20 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 63 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 63 archive.org
    Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 1 European paintings before 1500. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 169-170, no. 61
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 73 archive.org
    Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 275
    Pladevall, Antoni. L'Art Gòtic a Catalunya Volume II. Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2005. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 277
    Quesada, Francesc Ruiz. "A L'Entorn d'un Patrimoni Dispers I Perdut. Els Obradors Pictorics Gironins del Darrer Gotic." In Bernat Martorell i la tardor del gòtic català: el context artístic del retaule de Púbol. Joan Molina, ed., 94-108. Girona: Museu d'Art de Girona, 2003. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 94-95
  • Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963).
    The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).
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