France, northwestern
15th century, last quarter
Pot metal, white glass and silver stain
219.5 x 55.9 (86 1/4 x 22)
Considerable restoration including head of donor (actually head of St. Stephen) taken from another window of the same series; arms of order of St. Michael are sixteenth century and those of donor are a stopgap.
Provenance: Michel Acézat, Paris
Bibliography: Stephen V. Grancsay, “A Stained Glass Saint Michael in Armor, 11 Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art o.s. 23, no. 11 (November 1928), 268-271, figs. 1-2; MMAB (1971-1972), 139.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 28.84 (Arms and Armor Department)
Arms: Order of St. Michael: azure three fleurs-de-lis or; donor’s arms: or, a fess gules, on a chief argent three ermines sable the whole adextre by two pales or and vair (unidentified)
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