id: 125103
accession number: 1946.82
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Saint Jerome and the Lion (From the former Church of St. Peter in Erfurt), c. 1495. Tilman Riemenschneider (German, active Würzburg, c. 1460–1531). Alabaster, traces of polychromy; overall: 37.8 x 28.1 x 15.9 cm (14 7/8 x 11 1/16 x 6 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1946.82
title: Saint Jerome and the Lion (From the former Church of St. Peter in Erfurt)
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creation date: c. 1495
creation date earliest: 1490
creation date latest: 1500
current location: 111 German and Austrian Gothic
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Germany, Würzburg, late 15th Century
technique: alabaster, traces of polychromy
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Gothic
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
* Tilman Riemenschneider (German, active Würzburg, c. 1460–1531) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 37.8 x 28.1 x 15.9 cm (14 7/8 x 11 1/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Art, A Means to World Understanding
opening date: 1949-03-16T05:00:00
Art, A Means to World Understanding. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 16-April 10, 1949).
title: Art and Humanism in the Renaissance
opening date: 1962-01-23T05:00:00
Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962).
title: Work of Tilman Riemenschneider
opening date: 1962-10-06T04:00:00
Work of Tilman Riemenschneider. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (organizer) (October 6-November 11, 1962).
title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture
opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00
Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).
title: Tilman Riemenschneider - Frühe Werke (Tilman Riemenschneider - Early Works)
opening date: 1981-09-04T04:00:00
Tilman Riemenschneider - Frühe Werke (Tilman Riemenschneider - Early Works). Mainfrankisches Museum, Wurzburg, Germany (organizer) (September 4-November 1, 1981).
title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum
opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00
Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).
title: Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages
opening date: 1999-10-03T00:00:00
Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (October 3, 1999-January 9, 2000); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (February 7-May 14, 2000).
title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00
Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).
title: From Van Eyck to Dürer: Artistic Exchanges between the Netherlands and Central, Eastern and Northern Europe c.1420-1530
opening date: 2010-10-28T00:00:00
From Van Eyck to Dürer: Artistic Exchanges between the Netherlands and Central, Eastern and Northern Europe c.1420-1530. Groeningemuseum, Stedelijke Musea, Brugge, Belgium (October 28, 2010-January 30, 2011).
title: Alabaster. European Sculpture from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
opening date: 2022-10-14T04:00:00
Alabaster. European Sculpture from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. M Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (organizer) (October 14, 2022-February 26, 2023) https://www.mleuven.be/programma/albast.
title: Riemenschneider and Late Medieval Alabaster
opening date: 2023-03-26T04:00:00
Riemenschneider and Late Medieval Alabaster. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-July 23, 2023).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Ausstellung für christliche Kunst, Schloss, Mainz, Germany (August 20 - September 4, 1892).', 'opening_date': '2020-08-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Meisterwerke der Bildhauerkunst in Frankfurter Privatbesitz, Deutsche und Franzosische Okastik des Mittelalters, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany (1921).', 'opening_date': '1921-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Riemenschneider Gedächtnis-Ausstellung 1931 des Museum für Kunst und Landesgeschichte im Provinzial, Hannover, Germany (1931).', 'opening_date': '1931-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Masterpieces of Sculpture, Minneapolis Institute of Arts (November 1-December 11, 1949).', 'opening_date': '1949-11-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Classical, Medieval, Renaissance and Modern Sculpture, Dudley P. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 6-31, 1950).', 'opening_date': '1931-01-06T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Sculptures of Tilman Riemenschneider, North Carolina Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina (October 6 - November 11, 1962).', 'opening_date': '1962-10-06T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Tilman Riemenschneider, Mainfrankisches Museum Wurzburg, Germany (September 1-November 1, 1981).', 'opening_date': '1981-09-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Paris
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Aynard Collection, Lyons
date: ?-1913
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Harry Fuld, Frankfurt am Main
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(Rosenberg & Steibel, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1946
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1946-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Generalversammlung der Katholiken Deutschlands. . Katalog der Ausstellung für christliche Kunst: im ehem. Kurfürstl. Schlosse, 20. August - 4. September. 1892.
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Lelong, C. Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité, de l'antiquité, du Moyen-Age et de la Renaissance ..., ivories, émaux, tapisseries, tableaux ..., dépendant des collections de Mme C. Lelong 8, 9 et 10 décembre 1902. 1902.
page number: no. 147
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Hessen-Kunst (1909).
page number: p. 29
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Adelmann, C. "Til Riemenschneider," Walhalla VI (1910).
page number: p. 108
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Collection Aynard Lyon, Sale cat. Georges Petit (1913).
page number: no. 278
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Kunstblatt, II (1918).
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Meisterwerke Der Bildhauerkunst in Frankfurter Privatbesitz. Band 1. Deutsche Und Franzs̲ische Plastik Des Mittelalters. Frankfurt and Main: Frankfurter Kunstverein, 1921.
page number: no. 143
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Swarzenski, George. "Deutsche Alabasterplastik des 15 Jahfhunderts," Städel-Jahrbuch I (1921).
page number: p. 169
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Schrade, Hubert. Tilman Riemenschneider. Heidelberg: Hain, 1927.
page number: no. 278
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Provinzialmuseum Hannover, and Tilman Riemenschneider. Riemenschneider Gedächtnis-Ausstellung 1931 des Museums für Kunst und Landesgeschichte im Provinzial-Museum Hannover. Verzeichnis der ausgestellten Werke Riemenschneiders und seiner Schule. 1931.
page number: Cat. No. 10a, p. 16.
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Justus Bier, " Riemenschneider - Ausstellung im Gedächtnisjahr" Pantheon VIII (1931).
page number: p. 451
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Bier, Justus. Thieme-Becker, Allegemeine Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler (Leipzig, 1934).
page number: XXVIII, p. 334
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Schmitt, Otto. Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte I. Band, I. Band. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1937.
page number: pp. 310, 322, fig. 18
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Habicht, Victor Curt. T. Riemenschneiders Lehr- und Wanderjahre. Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch Für Landesgeschichte ; 14.1937. 1937.
page number: r, pl. II, fig. 3
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Bier, Justus. Tilmann Riemenschneider. Wien: Schroll, 1937.
page number: p. 27, pl. 54
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Ring, Grete. "St. Jerome Extracting the Thorn from the Lion's Foot." The Art Bulletin 27, no. 3 (1945)
page number: p. 188, fig. 5
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3047012
Milliken, William M. ""St. Jerome and the Lion" by Tilmann Riemenschneider." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art33, no. 10 (1946)
page number: pp. 182-3
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141320
Pope-Hennessy, John. "Recent Research." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 89, no. 531 (1947)
page number: p. 165
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Bier, Justus. Tilmann Riemenschneider; ein Gedenkbuch. Wien: A. Schroll, 1948.
page number: p. 32, pl. 56
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Masterpieces of Sculpture: November 1-December 11, 1949, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1949.
page number: cat. no. 25, p. 158, repr. p. 153
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Minneapolis Institute of Art Bulletin XXXVII, no. 29 (Nov. 5, 1949).
page number: p. 153
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Bier, Justus. "Riemenschneider's St. Jerome and His Other Works in Alabaster." The Art Bulletin 33, no. 4 (1951)
page number: pp. 226-234, fig. 1-4
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3047371
Bier, Justus. "Riemenschneider und die Schaumüngen des Lorenz von Bibra" Munchen Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst 7, no. 3 (1956).
page number: p. 100, fig. 19
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 188
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n45
Cleveland Museum of Art, and William Mathewson Milliken. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1958.
page number: p. 32
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Wixom, William D., and Henry S. Francis. Two Lindenwood Sculptures by Tilmann Riemanschneider ; 'The Stag Hunt', Lucas Cranach the Elder and Lucas Cranach the Younger. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959.
page number: fig. 38
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North Carolina Museum of Art. Sculptures of Tilmann Riemenschneider: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, October 6-November 11, 1962. [Raleigh, N.C.]: [North Carolina Museum of Art], 1962.
page number: Cat. No. III, repr. p. 27, 28, 29
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Werner, Alfred. "Riemenschneider and the Gothic Genius" Arts Magazine (October 1962).
page number: pp. 41-42
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"Exhibition Review" Emporium Rivista Mensile d'arte e di cultura (March 1963).
page number: pp. 137-8
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"Mostre Museu Gallerie" Sele Arte (March-April, 1963).
page number: no. 93, p. 59
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 77
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n101
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 77
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n101
Cooper, Barbara, and Maureen Matheson. The World Museums Guide, Edited by Barbara Cooper & Maureen Matheson. London: Threshold Books Ltd, 1973.
page number: p. 78
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 87
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n107
Ley, Max, and Konrad Zwingmann. Tilman Riemenschneider: fruhe Werke : Ausstellung im Mainfrankischen Museum Wurzburg. Regensburg: F. Puster, 1981.
page number: Cat. No. 57, p. 263-266
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Cleveland Museum of Art, "Tilmann Riemenschneider -- The Early Work," October 7, 1981, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr2927/
Bier, Justus, and Tilman Riemenschneider. Tilmann Riemenschneider/; His Life and Work. Lexington, KY.: Univ. Pr. of Kentucky, 1982.
page number: p. 97, fig. 6
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Krohm, Hartmut. Zum Frühwerk Tilman Riemenschneiders: eine Dokumentation. Berlin: Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Skulpturengalerie, 1982.
page number: p. 97 fig. 6
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Sello, Gottfried, and Toni Schneiders. Tilman Riemenschneider. Munchen: Lexikographische Institut Munchen, 1983.
page number: p. 53
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Keblowski, Janusz "Tylmana Riemenschneidera dziela wczesne (na marginesie wystawy w Würzburgu)" Biuletyn Historii Sztuki XLV, no. 2 (1983).
page number: p. 199
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Kalden-Rosenfeld, Iris, and Tilman Riemenschneider. Tilman Riemenschneider - Werkstattleiter in Würzburg: Beiträge zur Organisation einer Bildschnitzer- und Steinbildhauerwerkstatt im ausgehenden Mittelalter. Ammersbek bei Hamburg: Verl. an der Lottbek Jensen, 1990.
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Roberta Hubbard, "Martin's Mill" CWRU: The Magazine of Case Western Reserve University 5, no.1 (November 1992).
page number: p. 38
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Riemenschneider, Tilman, Julien Chapuis, and Michael Baxandall. Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages. 1999.
page number: Cat. no. 11.
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Marks, Richard "Exhibition Reviews", The Burlington Magazine (July 2000).
page number: p. 470
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Hayum, Andree "A Devotion to Carving: The Art of Tilmann Riemenschneider" Art in America (July 2000).
page number: p. 90
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Kalden-Rosenfeld, Iris. Tilman Riemenschneider und seine Werkstatt: mit einem Katalog der allgemein als Arbeiten Riemenschneiders und seiner Werkstatt akzeptierten Werke. Königstein im Taunus: Langewiesche, 2001.
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Muth, Hanswernfried, Tilman Riemenschneider, and Toni Schneiders. Tilman Riemenschneider: Bildschnitzer zu Würzburg. Würzburg: Echter, 2004.
page number: pp. 30-31
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Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
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Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007.
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Borchert, Till, and Julien Chapuis. Van Eyck to Dürer: Early Netherlandish Painting & Central Europe 1430-1530. Tielt: Lannoo, 2010.
page number: p. 415, fig. 229
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Borchert, Till, and Tilman Riemenschneider. Tilman Riemenschneider: The Annunciation : a New Addition to the Corpus of Works in Alabaster. London: Daniel Katz Ltd, 2012.
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page number: p. 45, fig. 36
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Lutz, Gerhard. “Late Medieval Alabaster Sculpture: A new look at Tilman Riemenschneider's Jerome.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 63, no. 1 (2023): 10-11.
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