France, Braine, Abbey of Saint-Yved (?)
c. 1200
Pot metal glass
191.7 x 87.0 (75 1/2 x 34 1/4)
Upper and lower parts of figure from two different windows
Provenance: Bacri Frères, Paris
Bibliography: W.F. Stahlman, “French Stained Glass,” in The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art o.s. 12, no. 8 (August 1917), 174; Arthur Kingsley Porter, “A Stained Glass Panel at the Metropolitan Museum,” Art in America 7 (1919), 39-43, pl. l; Joseph Breck and Meyric Rogers, The Pierpont Morgan Wing: A Handbook, 2nd ed. (New York, 1929), 116; Louis Grodecki, “Quelques observations sur le vitrail au XIIe siecle en Rhenanie et en France, ” M emorial de la Societe national e des antiquaires de France (Paris, 1953), 46-47; Hoff mann (1970), no. 202; MMAB (1971-197 2), 112-113; Grodecki, “Les plus anciens vitraux de Saint-Remi de Reims,” in Beitriige zur Kunst des Mittelalters: Fest schrift für Hans Wentzel zum 60, Geburtstag (Berlin, 1975), 70-73, fig. 3; Grodecki with Catherine Brisac and Claudine Lautier, Le vitrail roman (Freiburg, Switzerland, 1977), ill. ll5, cat. no. 79; Jean Ancien, Vitraux de la cathédrale de Soissons, 2 vols. (Soissons, 1980), 1:94-95, pl. following 99, no. 4; Madeline H. Caviness, “Saint-Yved of Braine: A Note on the Documented Da tes for the Gothic Church, ” Speculum 5 9 (July 1984), 546; Caviness, “Rediscovered Glass of about 1200 from the Abbey of Saint-Yved at Braine,” in Studies on Medieval Stained Glass, n. 40.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 14.47a-c (Medieval Department)
Inscription: AB IVD
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