France, Paris, Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Lady Chapel
c. 1245-1250
Pot metal glass
64.7 x 53.3 (25 1/2 x 21) each; Height of window installed: 323.5 x 106.7 (127 1/2 x 42)
Restorations throughout window; Border modern
Provenance: Alexandre Lenoir, Musée des Monuments Franais, Paris (storage?); Abbey of Saint-Denis; Charles Tollin, Paris; A. Seligmann, Rey & Company, New York
Bibliography: François de Guilhermy, “Notes sur l’abbaye de Saint-Denis,” (c. 1845) Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, MS nouv. acq. fr. 6121, fol. 84v; James J. Rorimer, “Recent Reinstallations of Medieval Art,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 6 (1948), 204; Louis Grodecki, “Vitraux de Saint-Germain-des-Pres,” Bulletin de la Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France (June 1956), 82- 83; Verdier (1957-1958), 69-87; Louis Grodecki, “De 1200 a 1260,? Le Vitrail Franais (Paris, 1958), 149; Grodecki, “The Stained Glass Windows of St. Germain-des-Pres,” Connoisseur 140 (September 1957), 33-34, 36-37; Grodecki, “Vitraux provenant de Saint-Germain-des-Pres,” Bulletin Monumental 117 (1959), 79-80; Verdier (1960), n .p.; Verdier, “A Stained Glass Window from St. Germain-des-Pres,” Bulletin of the Walters Art Gallery l3:5 (February 1961), n.p.; Verdier, “The Window of Saint Vincent from the Refectory of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pres (1239-1244),” The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 25-26 (1962-1963), 38-99; Walters Art Gallery, A Selection of Memorable Obiects (Baltimore, 1964), fig. 16; Kenneth W. Severens, “A Stained Glass ‘Flight into Egypt,'” Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 28 (1971), 1281 fig. 2; Grodecki (1976), 48, 56, 57, 106, 146; Grodecki “Les vitraux de Saint-Germain-des-Pres,” Bulletin de la Société Historique du VIe Arrondissement de Paris n.s., 5 (1977-1978) 1 11-12; Grodecki, et al., Les Vitraux de Paris, de la region parisienne, de la Picardie et du Nord-Pas-de-Calais [Corpus Vitrearum Med11 Aevi, France, Serie complementaire, Recensement des vitraux anciens de la France, l), (Paris, 1978), 46; Grodecki and Catherine Brisac, Gothic Stained Glass 1200-1300 (Ithaca, New York, 1985), 96, 98, l00, 253, no. 55.
Collection: The Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Maryland)
Object/Accession: 46.65a-h
1. Vincent preaching in Valerius’ stead (46.65a); 2. Crowd listening to Vincent (46.65b); 3. Dacian ordering Vincent tortured by fire (46.65c); 4. Scene modern (copy of panel now in Victoria and Albert Museum, London); 5. Pastiche of old and new glass; 6. Vincent in prison (46.6 5d); 7. Vincent’s soul ascends to heaven (46.65e); 8. Crow protects Vincent’s corpse from wild beasts (46.65f); 9. Dacian ordering Vincent’s body thrown into the sea (46.65g); 10. Fisherman throwing Vincent’s body into the sea (46.65h)
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