France, Paris, Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Lady Chapel
c. 1250
Pot metal glass
479.5 x 108.0 (188 1/2, x 42 1/2)
Replacements throughout, especially at top of window
Provenance: Alexandre Lenoir, Paris; Abbey of Saint-Denis; Eugene Oudinot, Paris; Michel Acézat, Paris; George D. Pratt, Glen Cove, N.Y.
Bibliography: Françoisde Guilhermy, “Notes sur diverses localites de la France,” 40 vols. (1840- 1872), Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, MS. fr. n.a. 61211 281 fol. 84v; Albert Lenoir, Statistique monumental e de Pari s: Atlas, 2 vols. (Paris, 1867), l, pl. 32; James J. Rorimer, “Not es,” The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art o.s. 29, no. 3 (March 1934), 5 l; Rorimer, “Recent Reinstalla tions of Medieval Art,” Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin n.s. 6, no. 7 (March 1948), 199-204; Rorimer and William H. Forsyth, “The Medieval Galleries,” Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin n.s. 12, no. 6 (February 1954), 128, ill. 138; Louis Grodecki, “Les vitraux de Saint-Germain-des-Pres,” Bulletin de la Societe nationale des antiquaries de France (6 June 195 6), 82-83; Grodecki, “Stained Glass Windows of Saint-Germain-des-Pres,” Cozmoisseur 140 (September 1957), 33-37; Philippe Verdier, “La verriere de Saint Vincent a Saint-Germain-des-Pres, “Paris et Il e-de-France, M emoires publies par la Federation des societe historiques et archeologiques de Paris et Il e-de? France 9 (1957-1958), 69-87; Grodecki in Marcel Aubert et al., Le vitrail français (Paris, 1958), 149; Aubert, Grodecki, Jean Lafond, and Jean Verrier, Les vitraux de Notre-Dame et de la Sainte-Chap elle de Paris [Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: France I] (Paris, 1959), 122 and 185; Verdier, “An Exhibition of Stained and Painted Glass from the 13th to the 17th Century, ” Bulletin of the Walters Art Gallery 12, no. 5 (February 1960), n.p.; Verdier, “A Stained Glass Window from St. Germain-des-Pres,” Bulletin of the Walters Art Gallery 13, no. 5 (February 1961), n.p.; Verdier, “The Window of Saint Vincent from the Refectory of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-d es-Pres (1239-1244),” Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 25 -26 (1962-1963), 39-99; MMAB (1971- 1972), 122; Nora B. Beeson with Margaretta M. Salinger, Guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1972), 218, ill. 34; Grodecki, Les vitraux de Saint- Denis: Etud e sur le vitrail au Xlle siecle, vol. l[Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi : France, Studies II (Paris, 1976), 48 and 5 61 pl. 212; Linda Papanicolaou, “Stained Glass Windows of the Choir of the Cathedral of Tours” (Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1979), 188; Michael Cothren, “The Thirteenth and Fourteenth-Century Glazing of the Choir of the Cathedral of Beauvais ” (Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1980), 139-141, pl. 99; Virginia C. Raguin, Stained Glass in Thirteenth-Century Burgundy (Princeton, 1982), 421 741 and 171, fig. 23.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 24.167 (Medieval Department)
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