id: 135931 accession number: 1959.43 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.43 updated: 2025-06-11 11:04:26.144000 Saint Stephen, 1502–8. Tilman Riemenschneider (German, active Würzburg, c. 1460–1531). Lindenwood with polychromy and gilding; overall: 93.5 x 35 x 23.5 cm (36 13/16 x 13 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1959.43 title: Saint Stephen title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1502–8 creation date earliest: 1502 creation date latest: 1508 current location: 111 German and Austrian Gothic creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, Würzburg, 16th century technique: lindenwood with polychromy and gilding department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Gothic type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Tilman Riemenschneider (German, active Würzburg, c. 1460–1531) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 93.5 x 35 x 23.5 cm (36 13/16 x 13 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Richard von Passavant-Gontard, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany date: footnotes: citations: C. von Pannwitz, Bennebroek, The Netherlands date: footnotes: citations: (Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1959 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1959- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 135920 Saint Lawrence, 1502–8. Tilman Riemenschneider (German, active Würzburg, c. 1460–1531). Lindenwood with polychromy and gilding; overall: 93.8 x 38.5 x 21.8 cm (36 15/16 x 15 3/16 x 8 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1959.42 relationship: --- CITATIONS Feulner, Adolf, and Theodor Müller. Geschichte der deutschen Plastik. München: F. Bruckmann, 1887. page number: p. 165 url: Riemenschneider, Tilman, and Carl Streit. Tylmann Riemenschneider: 1460-1531 ; Leben und Kunstwerke des fränkischen Bildschnitzers. 1 (1888) 1 (1888). Berlin: Wasmuth, 1888. page number: pl. 23 url: Tönies,Eduard "Leben und Werke des Würzburger Bildscnitzers Tilmann Riemenschneider" Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte XXII (1900). page number: p. 261, nos. 2,3 url: Weber, Anton, and A. Schnizlein. Til Riemenschneider: sein Leben und Wirken. Regensburg: J. Habbel, 1911. page number: pp. 192, 247 url: Schmitt, Otto, and Georg Swarzenski. Meisterwerke der bildhauerkunst in Frankfurter privatbesitz. Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter kunstverein, 1921. page number: p. 28, nos. 138-9, pl. 138-9 url: Bier, Justus, and Tilman Riemenschneider. Tilmann Riemenschneider. Augsburg: Filser, 1925. page number: p. 10 url: Städelsches Kunstinstitut (Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Sammlung R. von Passavant-Gontard. Frankfurt am Main: Städtelsches Kunstinstitut, 1929. page number: url: Schilling, R. "Ausstellung der Sammlung R. v. Passavant-Gontard im Städelschen Kunstinstitut," Pantheon III (April, 1929). page number: pp. 185, 187 url: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. 28, 28. Allgemeines Lexikon Der Bildenden Kunstler Von Der Antike Bis Zur Gegenwart / Unter Mitwirkung Von 320 Fachgelehrten Des In- Und Auslandes ; Herausgegeben Von Ulrich Thieme Und Felix Becker. Leipzig: E.A. Seeman, 1934. page number: pp. 333-4 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Saint Lawrence and Saint Stephen,” September 14, 1959, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0434 Wixom, William. "Two Lindenwood Sculptures." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 9 (November 1959): 189-197. page number: Mentioned: p. 189; Reproduced: cover, p. 189, 192 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142360 Bier, Justus, Art Quarterly XXIII, 3 (Autumn 1960). page number: pp. 215-227, figs 1, 6, 10, 12 url: Suppl. à la Gazette des Beaux-Arts no. 1092 (January 1960). page number: p. 34, no. 113 url: Wixom, William D. Two Lindenwood Sculptures by Tillmann Riemenschneider. Thesis--New York University, February 1963, 1963. page number: url: 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. 76 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n100 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. 76 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n100 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 Bier, Justus, and Tilman Riemenschneider. Tilmann Riemenschneider, His Life and Work. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1982. page number: url: Riemenschneider, Tilman, Julien Chapuis, and Michael Baxandall. Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages. 1999. page number: pp. 199-202, Cat. no. 32A url: 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. page number: p. 127, no. 173, kat. 14 url: 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. page number: p. 24 url: Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. page number: p. 19, fig. 12 url: Krohm, Hartmut, and Tobias Kunz. Nicht die Bibliothek, sondern das Auge: westeuropäische Skulptur und Malerei an der Wende zur Neuzeit : Beiträge zu Ehren von Hartmut Krohm. Petersberg: M. Imhof, 2008. page number: p. 263, abb. 1 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: pp. 158-9 url: Fliegel, Stephen N., and Stephen N. Fliegel. A Higher Contemplation: Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012. page number: p. 48, fig. 39 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 281 url: Gertsman, Elina, and Stephen N. Fliegel. Collectors, Commissioners, Curators: Studies in Medieval Art for Stephen N. Fliegel. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter ; [Kalamazoo, Michigan] : Medieval Institute Publications, 2023. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 9-10, Fig. 1.1. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.43/1959.43_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.43/1959.43_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.43/1959.43_full.tif