France, Soissons, Cathedral of Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais (?);
Various years (see details)
Pot metal
Dimensions: (left to right, starting at bottom left): 1, 3, 7, 9: 64.2 x 5 9.7 (25 1/4 x 23 1/2); figure medallions: 32.4 (12 1/2) w. borders: 27.3 (10 3/4) w. 4, 6: 64.2 x 32.4 (25 1/4 x 12 3/4); 2, 8: 64.2 x 64.2 (25 1/4 x 25 1/4); 5: 63.8 x 63.8 (25 1/8 x 25 1/8)
Considerable restoration and some stopgaps, and some corrosion, in the borders and panels (2, 5, 8); inscription slightly retouched (5); figures (1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9) placed in modern half -medallion surrounds_ modern heads on man (3) and child (1); a stopgap head from ambulatory series on figure (7), and many other stopgaps; some corrosion
Provenance: Sen. William A. Clark, Montana, to 1926
Bibliography: Paris, Archives Nationales, F19 7890, Devis May 23, 1891; Philippe Verdier, “A Stained Glass from the Cathedral of Soissons,” The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin 10 (1958) 4 22; Louis Grodecki, “Les vitraux soissonais du Louvre, du Musée Marmottan et des collections américaines,” Revue des Arts 10 (1960), 171-174, figs. 6, 8, 9; Jean Ancien, Vitraux de la cathédrale de Soissons (Soissons, 1980), 40, 68, 72, 159, 160 (ill.); Jean Ancien, Vitraux de la cathédrale de Soissons comme on Jes voyait entre 1817 et 1882 (Soissons, 1980), 37; Hayward and Cahn (1982), 139; Caviness, Beaven, and Pastan (1984), 10; 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 [Corpus Vitrearum: United States Occasional Papers, vol. 1] (New York, 1984), 27-28, figs. 7, 8.
Collection: The Corcoran Gallery of Art (District of Columbia)
Object/Accession: 26.793
2, 5, 8. c. 1200-1215; 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9. (figures) c. 1245-1255; 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9. (borders) c. 1200-1230
2, 8. Two medallions from the Legend of Saint Blaise; 5. A medallion from the Legend of Saints Crispinus and Crispinianus; 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9. Figures in half circles from an Old Testament cycle
1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9. Borders; 2, 5, 8 choir ambulatory; 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 (figures) probably the nave; 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 (borders) choir clerestory (?) or Braine, Abbey Church of Saint-Yved
Inscriptions: 2. S:BLASIVS:; 5. on scroll: CRISPINVS: CRI/SPINIANVS:
Image credit: Made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
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