Unidentified
The Son of Zaleucus Accused of Adultery
1524
Physical Qualities
White glass, yellow and pale amber silver stain, and paint, 8 5/8 in. diam. (21.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1941.399.1b
Set in a panel composed of fragments of the 15th through 17th centuries, modern border. A weeping lady stands before a seated monarch; onlookers are on either side of the throne.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1941; The Baltimore Museum of Art on extended loan, 1941; Saidie A. May by purchase, 1941; Gimbel's, New York; William Randolph Hearst, New York, by purchase 1927; Joseph Brummer, New York; Harding, London, after 1924; Sneyd Family, Keele Hall, Staffordshire, after 1842; Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, by purchase 1747-1750
Strawberry Hill sale, 1842, pp. 239-241, lot no. 20, 29, 30, 33 or 34?
"Old English and French Furniture, Porcelain and Objects of Art being a portion of the Sneyd Heirlooms removed from Keele Hall, Staffordshire," Christie's, London, 26 June 1924, lot 64.
"Art Objects and Furnishings from the William Randolph Hearst Collection," Gimbel Brothers (with Saks Fifth Avenue and Hammer Galleries), New York, 1941, lot 138-23.
"Catalogue of the Collections of William Randolph Hearst," Greenville, NY: C. W. Post Center of Long Island University, Special Collections Library, ms. [International Studio Art Corp.], 1939, vol. III [Stained Glass], lot no. 138, art. 23
C. J. Berserik, "Niet-monumentaal gebrandschilderd glas en ontwerpen uit Leiden, ca. 1480-1545, een catalogue," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leiden, 1982, part I, no. 12, fig. 21.
Michael Peover, 'Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, Horace Walpole's Stained Glass,' "Country Life," 26 October 1995, pp. 54-57.
'Stained Glass before 1700 in American Collection: Silver-Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels (Corpus Vitrearum Checklist IV),' "Studies in the History of Art," Vol. 39. WDC: National Gallery of Art, p. 91, ill.
Maker , possibly after Dierick Vellert
Unidentified
On View: Jacobs, Gallery 6
