France, Soissons, Cathedral of Saints Gervais and Protais, second chapel from the west on the north side of the chevet (?)
1195/1210-1215
Pot metal glass
366.0 x 157.0 (144 1/8 x 61 3/4); 66-68 x 78 (26-26 3/4 x 30 3/4) (each panel)
Panel 1 is a pastiche with some old fragments; panel 3 is from another window
Provenance: Edouard Didron, Paris (?); Bacri Frères, Paris, 1906
Bibliography: François de Guilhermy, “Notes sur diverses localités de la France,” 40 vols. (I840- I 872), Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, MS fr. n.a. 6109, 16, fol. 257; Longstreet (1935), 258-259; Philippe Verdier, “A Stained Glass from the Cathedral of Soissons,” The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin 10 (1958) 1 I7; Louis Grodecki, “Les vitraux soissonais du Louvre, du Musée Marmottan et des collections américaines,” Revue des Arts 10 (1960), 163-178; Orin Skinner, “Stained Glass Tours: Boston,” Stained Glass 60 (Summer 1965), 10; George L. Stout, Treasures from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1969), 198; Jean Ancien, Vitraux de la cathédrale de Soissons (Soissons, 1980), 401 68-74; Ancien, Vitraux de la cathédrale de Soissons comme on les voyait entre 1817 et 1882 (Soissons, 198o), 23, 32; Hayward and Cahn (1982), 139; M. H. Caviness, Marilyn M. Beaven, and Elizabeth C. Pastan, “The Gothic Window from Soissons: A Reconsideration,” Fenway Court (1983), 6-25, figs. 1, 4, 5, 10, 11; Suse Childs, “Two Scenes from the Life of St. Nicholas and their Relationship to the Glazing Program of the Chevet Chapels at Soissons Cathedral,” in Studies on Medieval Stained Glass, n. 9, fig. 4.
Collection: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, Massachusetts)
Object/Accession: C28s2
Panels, alternating from left to right starting at bottom left panel:
1. Martyrdom of St. Eutropia; 2. St. Nicasius and his companions; 3. A sick or dying woman; 4. The people of Reims (?); 5-6. Burial of St. Nicasius; 7-8. Pairs of angels receiving the martyrs’ souls; 9-10. Angels holding crowns