France, Flavigny-sur-Moselle, Priory church of Saint-Fermin, attributed to Valentin Bousch
1530-1535
Pot metal, white glass, silver stain, and sanguine
68.8 x 69.8 (27 1/8 x 27 1/2) (each)
A. Some replacements in background; B. some replacements in wreath
Provenance: Arnold Seligman, Rey and Co., New York
Bibliography: Abbe Guillaume, “Notice sur le prieure de Flavigny? sur- Moselle et sur quelques personages qui l’ont illustre,” . M emoires de la Societe d’archeologie lorraine 3rd s., no. 5 (1877), 223-328; Edmond des Robert, “Trois vitraux du prieure de Flavigny,Ó Bulletin de la Societe d’ archeologie lorraine Il 907), 212-214, ill.; Durr Friedley, “A Renaissance Window,” Art in America l(1913), 136-140; Friedley, “Stained Glass from the Abbey of Flavigny,Ó Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art o.s. 12, no. 5 (May 1917), l12-116, ill.; Léon Germain de Maidy, “Sur les anc1ens vitraux de Flavigny,” Bulletin de la Societe d’archeologie lorraine (1927), 57-60, 73-78; Jean Lafond in Marcel Aubert et al., Le vitrail français (Paris, 958), 243-244; Victor Beyer, Jacques Choux, and Lucien Ledeur, Vitraux de France du Moyen-Age a la Renaissance: Alsace, Lorraine, Franche-Comte (Colmar, 1970), 141-142; Choux, “Valentin Bousch a Saint-Nicolas-de-Port et a Flav1gny, Le pa ys lorrain 3 (1973), 157-170, ill; Michel Herold, “Le vitrail en Lorrame a la fin du Mayen Age” (Ph.D. diss., Université de Nancy, 1983), 114-117; Herold “Les vitraux anciens de Lorraie: Richesse et originalite in Le vitrail en Lorraine du X IIe au XXe siecle (Nancy, 1983), 63; Herold and Francis Roussel, “Catalogue: Vitraux deplaces,” in Le vitrail en Lorraine du XIIe au XXe siecle (Nancy, 1983), no. 185.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 17.40.5 and 6 (European Sculpture and Decorative Arts)
A. Arms: Argent two lions passant gardant gules, crowned or (Craincourt); B. Arms: Gules three lions rampant or (Savigny); supporter, an armorino
Inscriptions: A. CRAINCOVRT; B. SAVIGNY
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