France, Troyes, Cathedral of Saint-Pierre (?), Dormition of the Virgin window
1170-1180
Pot metal glass
21.0 x 43.0 (8 1/4 x 16 7/8)
Has thirteenth-century leads and replacements
Provenance: Joseph Brummer, New York
Bibliography: Part Two of the Notable Art Collection Belonging to the Estate of the Late Joseph Brummer [sale cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 11-14 May] (New York, 1949), 150, lot 599; Louis Grodecki, “Nouvelles decouvertes sur les vitraux de la cathédrale de Troyes,” in Intuition und Kunstwissenschaft: Festschrift fur Hanns Swarzenski, ed. Peter Bloch et al. (Berlin, 1973), 197, 199; Madeline H. Caviness, ??De convenientia et cohaerentia antiqui et novi operis’: Medieval Conserva tion Restoration, Pastiche and Forgery,” in Intuition und Kunstwissenschaft, 207 -208; Grodecki, Catherine Brisac, and Claudine Lautier, Le vitrail roman (Freiburg, Switzerland, 1977), 141; Suzanne M. Newman in Caviness et al. (1978), 7-9; Charles T. Little, “Membra Disjecta: More Early Stained Glass from Troyes Cathedral,” Gesta 20 (1981), 123.
Collection: Wellesley College Museum (Wellesley, Massachusetts)
Object/Accession: 1949-19a
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