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Six Scenes from a Life of Christ with Architectural Canopies

Adoration of the Magi, from the Cloisters
1986.285.1

Austria, Ebreichsdorf, Schlosskapelle
c. 1390
Pot metal glass
68.6 – 71.8 x 30.20 – 30.8 (27 1/4 – 28 1/4 x 11 7/8 – 12 1/8)
The scenes and canopies are assembled in four lights in the wrong order. Replacements or damage as follows: A, B, N: Some mending leads; C: Piece of background upper left; D: Part of background; E: Part of parapet; G: Head of Virgin distorted by mending lead; H: Parapet below scene missing; I: Middle part of Christ’s robe; J: Head and right side of Christ’s robe; M: Parapet below scene missing.

Provenance: Duveen Brothers, New York; Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, New York, to 1957
Bibliography: Mitteilungen der Zentralkomission für Erforschung und Erhaltung der Kunst-und Historischen Denkmale N.F. 1, XLII (1875) and N.F. XVII (1891), 135; Monatsblatt des Altertlmms-Vereines zu Wien III (1890-1892), 86, 143; Alois Löw, “Studien über ein Kapital der Monumental-Glasmälerei,” Berichte und Mitteilungen des Alterthums-Vereines zu Wein (1891), 107; Karl Lind, “Übersicht der noch in Kirchen Niederosterreichs erhaltenen Glasmälereien,” Berichte und Mitteilungen des Alterthums-Vereines zu Wein, XXVII (1891), 109-129; Alois Löw, “Glasmälereien in Niederbsterreich,” Berichte und Mitteilungen des Alterthums-Vereines zu Wein, XXXI (1895), 11; Karl Lind, Meisterwerke der kirchlichen Glasmälerei, eds. Rudolph Geyling and Alois Löw (Vienna, 1897), 11-15, pls . 1-7; Franz Kieslinger, Die Glasmälerei in Österreich Ein Abritz ihrer Geschichte (Vienna, 1920), 70, 72; Kieslinger, “Die Glasmälerei des Österreichischen Herzoghofes aus dem Ende des 14 Jahrhund erts,” Belvedere I (1922), 147-155; Franz Kieslinger, Gotische Glasmälerei in Österreich bis 1450 (Vienna, 1928), 24 and 48; Hans Wentzel, Meisterwerke der Glasmälerei (Berlin, 1954), 60; Eva Frödl-Kraft, “Glasgemälde,” Die Gotik in Niederösterreich [exh. cat., Krems] (Krems, 1959) n.p.; Eva Frödl-Kraft, Die Mittelalterliche Glasgemälde in Niederösterreich I: Abbrechtsberg bis Klosterneuburg [Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: Austria II] (1972), 225-228, pls. 681-692; “New Methods used to Study Old Glass,” Smithsonian Institution Research Reports 4 (Spring 1973), 4, ill.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 1986.285.1-13
Image Credits: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1986

 

1986.285.2
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1986.285.7
1986.285.8
1986.285.9
1986.285.10
1986.285.11
1986.285.12
1986.285.13

Addenda: These pieces were originally catalogued in Checklist II, 36-38 under District of Columbia, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Entry From: Checklist II, Checklist III: Addenda Filed Under: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters

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