Austria, Bad St. Leonhard im Lavanthal, Church of St. Leonhard, north chapel
1340-1350
Pot metal glass
88.9 x 33.0 (35 x 13) (each panel); height: 226.7 (89 1/8) (each lancet)
Some replacement in each panel including inscription in C; tracery lights 68.224.6.13 originally belonged to this window.
Provenance: Sotheby and Co., London
Bibliography: Franz Kieslinger, Die Glasmälerei in Osterreich, Bin Ubriss ihere Geschichte (Vienna, 1920), 56-59; Kieslinger (1928), 75; Walter Frodl, Glasmälerei in Kiirnten r r 50- 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. 261 ill.; Eva Frodl-Kraft, “Monumenta Deperdita, Die Geschichte eines Glasgemälde-Verkaufs,” Osterreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege 19, no. 4 (1965), 186-190, pls. 183-184; Jane Hayward, “Medieval Stained Glass from St. Leonhard in Lavanthal at The Cloisters,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin n.s. 28, no. 6 (February 1970), 291-292, ill.; MMAB (1971-1972), 120 and 129, 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.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 65.97.l.6 (Cloisters Collection)
A. St. Lawrence (65.97.2); B. St. George (65.97.3); C. St. Ambrose (65.97.6); D. St. Augustine (65.97.4); E. St. Nicholas (65.97.5); F. St. Martin (65.97. 1)
Inscriptions: A. S. LAV RENTIVS; B. S. GEORIVS; C. S. AMBROSIVS; D. S. AVGVSTINVS; E. S. NICOLAVS; F. S. MARTINVS
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