France, Flavigny-sur-Moselle, Priory church of Saint-Fermin, attributed to Valentin Bousch
1531
Pot metal, white glass, silver stain, and sanguine
361.2 x 160.2 (142 x 63)
Minor replacements and mending leads
Provenance: Arnold Seligman, Rey and Co., New York
Bibliography: Abbe Guillaume, “Notice sur le prieure de Flavigny? sur-Moselle et sur quelques personages qui l’ont illustre,” Memories de la Societe d’archeologie lorraine 3rd s., no. 5 (1877), 223-328; Edmond des Robert, “Trois vitraux du prieure de Flavigny,” Bulletin de la Societe d’ archeologie Lorraine (l907), 212-2141 ill.; Durr Friedley, “A Renaissance Window,” Art in America l (1913), 136-140; Friedley, “Stained Glass from the Abbey of Flavigny,” Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art o.s. 12, no. 5 (May 1917), l12-116, ill.; Léon Germain de Maidy, “Sur les anciens vitraux de Flavigny,” Bulletin de la Societe d’archeologie lorraine (1927), 57-60, 73-78; Jean Lafond in Marcel Aubert et al., Le vitrail français (Paris, 1958), 243-244; Victor Beyer, Jacques Choux, and Lucien Ledeur, Vitraux de France du Mayen-Age a la Renaissance: Alsace, Lorraine, Franche-Comte (Colmar, 1970), 141-142; Choux, “Valentin Bausch a Saint-Nicolas-de-Port et a Flavigny,Ó Le pays lorrain 3 (1973), 157-170, ill.; Michel Herold, “Le vitrail en Lorraine a la fin du Mayen Age” (Ph.D. diss., Université de Nancy, 1983), 114-117; Herold, “Les vitraux anciens de Lorraine: Richesse et originalite” in Le vitrail en Lorraine du XIIe au XXe siecle (Nancy, 1983), 63; Herold and Francis Roussel, “Catalogue : Vitraux deplaces,” in Le vitrail en Lorraine du X II e au X Xe siecle (Nancy, 1983), no. 185.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: l7.40.2A-R (European Sculpture and Decorative Arts)
Arms: Argent three lions rampant sable, armed and langued gules, ducally crowned or (Wary de Lucy); below: two small shields or a cross patriarchal argent
Inscriptions: on tablets in predella: (LEFT) ECCE EGO I ADVCAM I AQVAS DJ- I LVVY ET I TER IN I FlCl I AM OEM I CARNEM I IN AQVA I GENESIS 5; (CENTER) FRA VS I INIMICA I LVCI I l 5 3 l I F I L (initials of motto of donor); (RIGHT) MVLTIPLI- I CATE SVT I AQVE ET I ELEVA VE- I RV I ARCA I IN SVB- I LIME TERR I GENESIS
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