France, Montreuil-sur- Loire, parish church
c. 1220
Pot metal
260 x 33 (102 3/8 x 13)
The figure of Christ in Panel 3 is mostly modern and has been iconographically altered, although the two angels at the top of this panel are original
Provenance: Brummer Gallery, New York
Bibliography: Jane Hayward, “The Angevin Style of Glass Painting” [Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1958], 251-266, pls. 84-88; Gabriel Loire, Le vitrail, aperçus historiques, artistiques et techniques (Angers, 1925), 821 pl. l; F. M. Biebel, “XII century French Window,” Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis 20 (1935), 48-50; Jane Hayward, “Identification of the ‘Crucifixion’ Window,” Bulletin of the City Art Museum of Saint Louis 42, no. 2 (1957), 19-22; Louis Grodecki and Jane Hayward, “Les vitraux de la cathedrale d’Angers,” Bulletin Monumental 124 (1966), 29, n. 3; Jane Hayward in Hoffmann (1970), 216-217, cat. no. 220; The St. Louis Art Museum Handbook of the Collections (St. Louis, 1975), 53, ill.; Jane Hayward, “The Choir Windows of Saint-Serge and Their Glazing Atelier,” Gesta 15 (1976), 255-264, figs. 9, 10; Louis Grodecki, Le vitrail Roman (Fribourg, 1977), 88, 261, n. 29; Jane Hayward, “The Redemption Windows of the Loire Valley,” in Sumner McK. Crosby et al., Etudes d’Art Mediéval offertes à Louis Grodecki (Paris and Strasbourg, 1980), 129-138, fig. 8; Louis Grodecki and Catherine Brisac, Gothic Stained Glass (1984, trans. London 1985), 64; Catherine Brisac, A Thousand Years of Stained Glass (1984, trans. Garden City, 1986), 191.
Collection: The St. Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, Missouri)
Object/Accession: 6-3:35, Museum Purchase
From bottom to top: 1. Three Marys at the Tomb; 2. Crucifixion; 3. Resurrection; 4. Christ in Majesty