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The Isenheim Altarpiece — Saint Sebastian — Mathis Gothart Nithart (Grünewald)
saint sebastian  ·  The Isenheim Altarpiece — Saint Sebastian
The Isenheim Altarpiece — The Crucifixion — Mathis Gothart Nithart (Grünewald)
crucifixion  ·  The Isenheim Altarpiece — The Crucifixion
The Isenheim Altarpiece — Saint Anthony — Mathis Gothart Nithart (Grünewald)
saint anthony  ·  The Isenheim Altarpiece — Saint Anthony
The Isenheim Altarpiece — The Annunciation — Mathis Gothart Nithart (Grünewald)
annunciation  ·  The Isenheim Altarpiece — The Annunciation
The Isenheim Altarpiece — The Concert of Angels and the Nativity — Mathis Gothart Nithart (Grünewald)
concert of angels nativity  ·  The Isenheim Altarpiece — The Concert of Angels and the Nativity
The Isenheim Altarpiece — Resurrection (first opening, right wing) — Mathis Gothart Nithart (Grünewald)
resurrection  ·  The Isenheim Altarpiece — Resurrection (first opening, right wing)
The Isenheim Altarpiece — Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons — Mathis Gothart Nithart (Grünewald)
temptation of saint anthony  ·  The Isenheim Altarpiece — Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons
The Isenheim Altarpiece — The Visit of Saint Anthony to Saint Paul the Hermit — Mathis Gothart Nithart (Grünewald)
visit of saint anthony to saint paul  ·  The Isenheim Altarpiece — The Visit of Saint Anthony to Saint Paul the Hermit
The Isenheim Altarpiece — Lamentation over the Body of Christ — Mathis Gothart Nithart (Grünewald)
lamentation  ·  The Isenheim Altarpiece — Lamentation over the Body of Christ
9 sheets, one edition

The Isenheim Altarpiece

Grünewald — Mathis Gothart Nithart (born Würzburg c. 1475/80; died Halle, 1528)
Held by Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, 88.RP.139
Medium bois (tilleul) (tempera, huile)
Dimensions H. 292 cm ; l. 165 cm (Visite de saint Antoine à saint Paul / Concert des Anges (revers, a.c.)) ; H. 292 cm ; l. 165 cm (Tentation de saint Antoine, Nativité (revers)) ; H. 292 cm ; l. 167 cm (Annonciation / Crucifixion (moitié gauche, a.c)) ; H. 292 cm ; l. 167 cm (Résurrection, / Crucifixion (moitié droite, a.c.)) ; H. 255 cm ; l. 100 cm (Saint Sébastien (a.c.)) ; H. 255 cm ; l. 100 cm (Saint Antoine (a.c.)) ; H. 84 cm ; l. 366 cm (Mise au tombeau (a.c.)) ; H. 401 cm ; l. 692 cm
Credit saisie révolutionnaire ; propriété de l'Etat ; dépôt Ville de Colmar ; gestion confiée à la Société Schongauer

Sizes

Sanctuary   saint sebastian 8×10 in + crucifixion 8×10 in + saint anthony 8×10 in + annunciation 8×10 in + concert of angels nativity 8×10 in + resurrection 8×10 in + temptation of saint anthony 8×10 in + visit of saint anthony to saint paul 8×10 in + lamentation 12×36 in   $452 · $532 bought separately

One object, one accession: the Musée Unterlinden holds the painted panels as 88.RP.139 and they are sold whole. Nine sheets, one edition. Nine sheets, one edition - $532.

Nine painted panels of the altarpiece Grünewald made between 1512 and 1516 for the Antonite monastery at Isenheim, whose monks nursed victims of Saint Anthony's fire. Colmar describes three views. Closed, on most days: the Crucifixion between Saint Sebastian and Saint Anthony. The outer wings opened for feasts of the Virgin: the Annunciation, the Concert of Angels and the Nativity, the Resurrection. The inner wings opened so pilgrims and the sick could venerate Saint Anthony, tormented by demons and visiting Saint Paul the Hermit. With the Lamentation predella. On the high altar until the Revolution; at the Unterlinden since 1852.

Made for Made for the high altar of the hospital chapel of the Antonite monastery at Isenheim, whose monks nursed victims of Saint Anthony's fire; commissioned by the preceptor Guy Guers; on that altar until the Revolution, at the Unterlinden in Colmar since 1852. source

Hung as the museum describes the object and as Jeff ruled: the closed altarpiece (Saint Sebastian, the Crucifixion, Saint Anthony); the first opening (Annunciation, Concert of Angels and Nativity, Resurrection); the second opening's wings (Saint Anthony tormented, the Visit to Saint Paul - the carved shrine between them is Niclaus of Haguenau's and is not a print); the Lamentation predella beneath. The panels are not level - the museum measures the wings at 292 cm, the two saints at 255 cm and the predella at 84 cm, with frame - so no tier claims they hang level; audit_set_records S6 reports it and that report is correct.

Sources

Printed on demand as one edition. The whole image is printed on every sheet — never cropped to fit — so each panel carries an archival margin.