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Three Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist

France, Breuil-le-Vert (Oise), Church of Saint-Martin
c. 1235
Pot metal glass
Diameters: A: 46.5 (18 5/16); B: 47.5 (18 11/16); C: 46 (18 1/8)
A. extensive restoration, including head and body of Christ; B. minor restoration; C. some restoration, including head of executioner, and head of Salome damaged with acid cleaning

The Baptism of Christ
A. The Baptism of Christ
Salome Dancing at the Feast of Herod
B. Salome Dancing at the Feast of Herod
Salome Receiving the Head of the Baptist
C. Salome Receiving the Head of the Baptist

Provenance: Léon Bonnat, Paris; Augustin Lambert, Paris
Bibliography: Ledicte-Duflois, “Memories sur les vitraux peints de l’arrondissement de Clermont (Oise),” Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de Picardie 10 (1850), 94-95; Michael W. Cothren, “The Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Glazing of the Choir of the Cathedral of Beauvais,” (Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1980), 86, pl. 49; Michael W. Cothren in Hayward and Cahn (1982), 156-161, colorplate IX; Michael W. Cothren, “The John the Baptist Window from Breuil-le-Vert (Oise): Stylistic and Iconographic Regionalism in the Second Quarter of the Thirteenth Century,” in Studies on Medieval Stained Glass [Corpus Vitrearum: United States, Occasional Papers 1] (New York, 1985), 49-59, A: fig. 1, B: fig. 2, C: figs. 3, 8b; Mickenberg (1985), 293, B. only; Michael W. Cothren, “The Choir Windows of Agnieres (Somme) and a Regional Style of Gothic Glass Painting,” Journal of Glass Studies 28 (1986), 62-63, fig. 20.

Collection: The Glencairn Museum (Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania)
Object/Accession: A. 03.SG.110; B. 03.SG.109; C. 03.SG.209

Entry From: Checklist II Filed Under: Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, The Glencairn Museum

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