A. France, Braine, Abbey of Saint- Yved (?) (panels 2-4); B. France, Alsace (?) (panels 1 and 5)
c. 1200 (A); c. 1240-1250 (B)
Pot metal glass
A: 2) 51.7 x 66 (10 3/8 x 26); 4) 44 x 49 (17 3/8 x 19 1/4); B: 1) 59 X 65 (23 1/4 X 25 5/8); 5) 78 x 65.4 (30 3/4 x 25 3/4) (original overall dimensions including border [now separately catalogued]: 325.7 x 104.2 [128 x 41])
Window now in fragmentary condition with only the two lower panels (1 and 2) essentially intact; panel 3 lost; upper panels (4 and 5) only partially preserved. The inscription is overpainted.
Provenance: Lucien Demotte, Paris, to 14 June 1929; William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles, to 1954
Bibliography: François de Guilhermy, “Notes sur diverses localites de la France,î Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Departement des Manuscrits, MS n. acq. fr. 6109, f. 255v (A ?); C.W. Post Catalogue (I939), vols. 101-104, lot no. 459-16; Forest Lawn Archives (1956), lot no. 459-16; A.-E. Poquet & L. N. Daras, Notice historique et archeologique de la cathedrale de Soissons (Soissons, 1848), 66 (A ?); Demotte (1929), no. 14, ill.; Hearst sale (1941), 329, lot no. 459-16, ill.; Jean Ancien, Vitraux de la cathedrale de Soissons comme on Jes voyait entre 1817 et 1882 (Soissons, 1980), 40 (A ?); Caviness, Reims and Braine, Catalogue A, nos. 15-16 and Appendix 7.
Collection: Forest Lawn (Glendale, California)
Object/Accession: FL lots 11, 12, 60, 85
B. Arms: Chequy gules and or in chief two squirrels passant proper (made up)
A. Inscription: DA[VID]