France, Troyes, Cathedral of Saint-Pierre (?), Dormition of the Virgin window
1170-1180
Pot metal glass
47.0 x 45.0 (18 1/2 x 17 3/4)
Unpainted background and parts of figures restored
Provenance: Joseph Brummer, New York; Mrs. Ernest Brummer, New York
Bibliography: Carmen G6mez? Moreno, Medieval Art from Private Collections [exh. cat., The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art] (New York, 1968), no. 182; Hoffmann (1970), 198; Louis Grodecki, “Nouvelles decouvertes sur Jes vitraux de la cathédrale de Troyes” in Intujtion und Kunstwis enschaft: Festschrifr für Hanns Swarzenski, ed. Peter Bloch et al. (Berlin, 1973), 197; Madeline Caviness, “‘De convenientia et cohaerentia antiqui et novi operis’: Medieval Conserva tion, Restora tion, Pastiche, and Forgery,” in Intuition und Kunstwissenschaft, 206-209, fig. 2; Caviness et al. (1978), 7; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Notable Acquisition s: 1975-1979 (New York, 1979), 23; Charles Little, “Membra Disjecta : More Early Stained Glass from Troyes Cathedral,” Gesta 20, no. 1 (1981), 122-124, fig. 5.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 1977.346.1 (Medieval Department)
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