France, Lorraine, Ormes-et-Ville, Franciscan Convent
1529
Pot metal, white glass, and silver stain
A: 106.7 x 74.9 (42 x 29 1/2); B: 107.9 x 76.2 (42 3/8 x 30); C: ll3.7 x 74.9 (44 1/4 x 29 1/2); D: 114.0 x 74.9 (44 7/8 x 29 1/2)
Some losses at top of A and B; losses in sky of C
Provenance: George Blumental, New York
Bibliography: Friedley (1913), 46-47; Rubenstein-Bloch (1926), pls. 49-50; Léon Germain de Maidy, “Les anciens vitraux d’Ormes emigres en Amerique,” Memoires de la Societe d’archeologie lorraine 4th s. 18, 1928-1929 (1930), 2-16; Victor Beyer, Jacques Choux, and Lucien Ledeur, Vitraux de France du Mayen-Age a la Renaissance: Alsace, Lorraine, Franche-Comte (Colmar, 1970), 146-147; Michel Herold, “Le vitrail en Lorraine a la fin du Moyen Age” (Ph.D. diss., Université de Nancy, 1983), 148-150; Choux, “Le vitrail lorrain au Moyen-Age et a la Renaissance,” in Le vitrail en Lorraine du X I!e au X Xe sicle (Nancy, 1983), 56; Herold and Francis Roussel, “Catalogue: Vitraux deplaces,” in Le vitrail en Lorraine du X IIe au XXe siecle (Nancy, 1983), no. 193.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 41.190.447-450 (European Sculpture and Decorative Arts)
A. St. Gerard with Gerard de Heracourt as donor (41.190.447); Arms: Or a cross gules, on a canton or a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules; crest: on a barred helm in profile, a swan rising or gorged with a ducal coronet (Heracourt d’Artois); mantling of the colors; B. St. Francis with Franc;ois d’Anglure as donor (41.190.448) Arms: Quarterly, r and 4 or seme with hawk bells argent each supported by a crescent gules (Anglure), 2 and 3 paly of six azure and gules each azure pallet charged with three studs argent, in chief or a bird sable posed dexter (Burlemont); C. Madeleine de Grand Pre as donor (41.190.449) Arms: Within a lozenge, quarterly 1 and 4 azure three eagles argent (Leiningen), 2 and 3 gules a cross argent (Aspremont), inescutcheon of pretense within a bordur e gules, argent charged with a lion rampant sable debruised by escarbuncle or (Dagsburg), impaling barry of twelve or and gules (Grand Pre of Champagne); crest: a coronet; D. Count of Lynange as donor (41.190.450) Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4 azure three eagles argent (Leiningen or Lynange) [the charge in 4 is an insertion from another window], 2 and 3 gules a cross argent (Aspremont), inescutcheon of pretense within a bordure gules, argent charged with a lion rampant sable debruised by escarbuncle or (Dagsburg); crest: on a barred helm in profile, a hoard of flint stones argent (unidentified); mantling of the same
Inscriptions: A. MESSIRE GERARD DE HARACO I VRT CHEVALIER SENESCHAL I DE LORRAINNE ET SEIGNER DOR / MES 1529; B. ET MA DAME FRANCOY I SE DANGLVRE SA FAMME; C. ET MA DAME MAGDELEINE I DE GRANT PRES SA FEME; D. HESSE CONTE DE LYNANGE I ET DE; DASBOVRCE SEIGNER I DASPREMONT MARESCHAL / DV BARROIS 1529
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