Christ Riding a Donkey (Palmesel)

to ca. 1970, Count Wilczek, Burg Kreuzenstein (near Vienna, Austria); ca. 1970 sold to [film director] John Huston (St. Clerans, Craughwell, County Galway, Ireland) [1]; 1976-1977, Barling of Mount Street Ltd. (London, England); 1977, sold by Barling of Mount Street, Ltd. to the Elvehjem Art Center [now Chazen Museum of Art]. [1] according to letter from Inge Bienenstein, Atelier I Bienenstein (Vienna) to Raffaello Amati, Antiquus (London) (received on July 1, 1977).

• Holcomb, Melanie, Maria Saffiotti Dale, and Catherine Janis. "A Guide to Medieval Art in Midwestern Campus Collections," in Christina Nielsen, ed., "To Inspire and Instruct: A History of Medieval Art in Midwestern Museums." Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. p. 189
• Elvehjem Art Center. "Bulletin 1976-1977." Madison: Elvehjem Art Center, 1977. pp. 13, 14, 58
• Donnelly, Marian C. "A Note on the Elvehjem Palmesel." Bulletin 1981-1983. Elvehjem Museum of Art (1983): 32-35. pp. 32-35
• Horlbeck, Frank R. "Gloria, Laud and Honor: The Palmesel and Palm Sunday." Elvehjem Museum of Art Bulletin, 1977-1978. Elvehjem Museum of Art (1978): 26-37. pp. 26-37
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Handbook of the Collection." Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, 1990. p. xii, no. 18
• Bruzelius, Caroline and Jill Meredith. "The Brummer Collection of Medieval Art: The Duke University Museum of Art." Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1991. p. 233, pl. 32.2
• Harris, Max. "Christ on a Donkey : Palm Sunday, Triumphal Entries, and Blasphemous Pageants." Kalamazoo: Arc Humanities Press, 2019. pp. 221-222

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