France (Orne), Sees Cathedral, Saint Joseph’s chapel (formerly St. Augustine’s chapel)
1270-1280
Pot metal glass
248.5 x 59.7 (97 5/8 x 23 1/2)
Several pieces have been replaced, particularly in the second panel from the bottom, and there are many mending leads
Provenance: Roy Grosvenor Thomas, London; Abraham M. Adler, New York
Bibliography: Phillipe Verdier, “The Window of Saint Vincent from the Refectory of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pres (1239-1244),” Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, 25-26 (1962-1963), 91; Verdier, “The Decorative Arts,” in Art and the Courts: France and England from 1259 to 1328 [exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada] (Ottawa, 1972), 110-111; Meredith Parsons Lillich, “Stained Glass from Western France (1250-1325) in American Collections,” Journal of Glass Studies 25 (1983), 124 and 126; Helen J. Zakin, “Grisailles in the Pitcairn Collection,” Studies on Medieval Stained Glass, fig. 6.
Collection: Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, New York)
Object/Accession: 51.3.228
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