Austria, Bad St. Leonhard im Lavanthal, Church of St. Leonhard, choir
1340-1350
Pot metal glass
A: 98.4 x 45.1 (38 3/4 x 17 3/4); B: 98.4 x 45.7 (38 3/4 x 18)
Lower part of background in St. Thomas panel restored; edge fillets new in both
Provenance: Sotheby and Co., London
Bibliography: Franz Kieslinger, Die Glasmälerei in Osterreich, Ein Ubriss ihere Geschichte (Vienna, 1920), 56-59; Kieslinger (928), 74; Walter Frodl, Glasmalerei in Kärnten 1150-1500 (Klagenfurt, Vienna, 1950), 62; Highly Important Medieval Works of Art … Including the Property of Mr. Philippe Stocklet [sale cat., Sotheby and Co., 27 April] (London, 1965), lot no. 251 ill.; Eva Frodl-Kraft, “Monumenta Deperdita, Die Geschichte eines Glasgemälde-Verkaufs,” Osterrerichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege 19, no. 4 (1965), 186- 190, pl. 185; 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; MMAB (1971-1972), 130-131, ill.; Young (1979), 76-78; 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. 9.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 65.96.1 and 2 (Cloisters Collection)
Image Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1965: 65.96.1 • 65.96.2
Inscriptions: A. S. THOMAS; B. S. PHILIPVS