France, Abbey of Saint-Denis, Infancy window
1141-1144
Pot metal glass
A: 40.6 x 8.9 (16 x 3 1/2); B: 40.6 x 9.5 (16 x 3 3/4)
Unmatching halves approximately half the width of the original border; replacements
Provenance: Grosvenor Thomas, London; George D. Pratt, Glen Cove, N.Y.
Bibliography: EM M A (1926), 294; Louis Grodecki, “Fragments de vi traux provenant de Saint-Denis,” Bulletin monumental 110 (1952), 55-57; Grodecki, “Les vitraux de Saint-Denis; L’enfance du Christ,” in De Artibus Opuscula X L: Essay in Honor of Erwin Panofsky (New York, 1961), 1:179; M MAB (1971-1972), 110; Grodecki, Les vitraux de Saint-Denis: Etude sur le vitrail au X Jie siecle, vol. l [Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: France, Studies I] (Paris, 1976), 126- 127, pl. 195; Abbot Suger, Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art Treasure, ed. and trans. Erwin Panof sky; 2nd ed., Gerda Panofsky-Soerg el, ed. (Princeton, 1979), 207; The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in the Time of Abbot Suger (u25 -1151) [exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art] (New York, 1981), no. 14.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 26.218.6a,b (Medieval Department)
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