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Portrait of Evangelist Mark

Artist: Anonymous (German)
Created: late 11th century
Medium: paint and gold on parchment
Dimensions: 9 1/16 x 6 5/16 in. (23 x 16 cm)

Folio Number: 67v

Format: full-page miniature; h.: 14.3 cm, w.: 10.2 cm

Period: Medieval

Country: Germany (?)

Style: Ottonian

Language: Latin

Provenance: Abbey of St. Peter, Reichenau (?), mid-11th century; German Library, 19th century [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sir Thomas Brooke, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, after 1854 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Ingraham Brooke, Sotheby's March 7, 1913, lot 8; Leon Gruel, after 1913 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Line: Acquired by Henry Walters
Accession No. W.7.67V