Austria, Bad St. Leonhard im Lavanthal, Church of St. Leonhard, choir
1340-1350
Pot metal glass
A: 99.0 x 45.1 (39 x 17 3/4); B: 97.7 x 44.4 (38 1/2 x 17 1/2)
Edge fillets restored in both panels
Provenance: Sotheby and Co., London
Bibliography: Franz Kieslinger, Die Glasmälerei in Osterreich, Ein Ubriss ihere Geschichte ( Vienna, 1920), 56-59; Kieslinger (1928), 75; Walter Frodl, Glasmälerei in Kärnten 1150-1500 (Klagenfurt, Vienna, 1950), 63; Highly Important Medieval Works of Art … Including the Property of Mr. Philippe Stocklet [sale cat., Sotheby and Co., 27 April] (London, 1965), lot no. 26, ill.; Eva Frodl-Kraft, “Monumenta Deperdita, Die Geschichte eines Glasgemälde- Verkaufs,” Osterreichische Zeitschrift fUr Kunst und Denkmalpflege 19, no. 4 (1965), 186-1901 pl. 186; Jane Hayward, “Medieval Stained Glass from St. Leonhard in Lavanthal at The Cloisters, ” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin n.s. 281 no. 6 (February 1970), 291-292, ill.; MMAB (1971-1972), 124-125, ill.; Young (1979), 76-78; Sturm (1982), 6-8, ill. 5; Frodl-Kraft, “Problems of Gothic Workshop Practices in Light of a Group of Mid-Fourteenth-Century Austrian Stained Glass Panels,” in Studies on Medieval Stained Glass, fig. l.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 65.96.3 and 4 (Cloisters Collection)
Inscriptions: A. S. CHA ISER. HAINRICH; B. S. CHVNIGVNDIS
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