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Two Angels At the Nativity of Christ

Two Angels At the Nativity of ChristFrance, Clermont-Ferrand, Cathedral of Notre-Dame (?), Infancy of Christ Window
c. 1190-1200
Pot metal glass
22 x 36.8 (8 5/8 x 14 1/2)
Head and mantle of right angel are restorations; some leads may be medieval

Provenance: Felix Gaudin, Paris; Lucien Demotte, Paris
Bibliography: Demotte [1929], no. 2; Louis Grodecki, “Un groupe de vitraux franais du XIIe sicle,” in Festschrift Hans R. Hahnloser, zum 60. Geburtstag, 1959, ed. Ellen J. Beer (Basel and Stuttgart, 1961), 298, n. 20; Jane Hayward in Gómez-Moreno (1968), no. 178; Grodecki (1977), 282; Raguin (1982), 90, n. 155; Jane Hayward in Hayward and Cahn (1982), 121-123; Catherine Brisac, “The Romanesque Panels in the Cathedral of Clermont-Ferrand,” in Studies on Medieval Stained Glass [Corpus Vitrearum: United States, Occasional Papers l] (New York, 1985), 15-20, fig. 6.

Collection: The Glencairn Museum (Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania)
Object/Accession: 03.SG.10

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