France, Tours, Cathedral of Saint-Gatian, ambulatory window (?)
1245-1248
Pot metal glass
A: 66.7 x 32-4 (26 1/4 x 12 3/8); B: 67.3 x 32.4 (26 1/2 x 12 3/4)
Parts of backgrounds replaced, crown missing in panel B
Provenance: Leopold Lobin, Tours; Brimo and Lion, Paris
Bibliography: Françoisde Guilhermy, “Notes sur diverses localites de la France,” 40 vols. (1840-1872), Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, MS. fr. n.a. 6111, 18, fol. 24; James J. Rorimer, “New Acquisitions for The Cloisters,” The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art o.s. 33, no. 51 section 2 (May 1938), 12, fig. 9; Rorimer (1963), 56; Linda Papanicolaou, “Stained Glass from the Cathedral of Tours: The Impact of the Sainte-Chapelle in the 1240s,” St. Martin Metropolitan Museum Journal 15 (1980), 53-66, figs. l and 2; Sturm (1982), 2-3, ill. 2.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 37.173.3 and 4 (Cloisters Collection)
A. St. Louis carrying the Crown of Thorns (37.173.3); B. Gauthier Cornut, Archbishop of Sens, displaying the Crown (37.173.4)
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