France, Paris, Sainte-Chapelle
1241/1243-1248
Pot metal glass
Diameters: A. 60.3 (23 3/4); B. 60.0 (23 5/8); C. 59.3 (23 5/16)
A few replacements in each panel, generally stopgaps, such as the torso of the right soldier in B
Provenance: Church in Brittany, 1821 (?); William Poyntell, his son and grandson; Poyntell C. Staley
Bibliography: “The Staley Collection of Stained and Painted Glass,” The Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin 18 (March 1923), 3-5; Bye (1925), 11-14; D’Ascenzo (1932), 87-89; Erwin Panofsky, Abbot S uger: On the Abbey Church of Saint- Denis (Princeton, 1946), 195 n. 8, and 2d. ed. (1979), 205, n. 8; Madeline H. Caviness, “Three Medallions of Stained Glass from the Sainte Chapelle of Paris,” The Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin 62 (1967), 245 -25 9; Madeline Harrison-Caviness and Louis Grodecki, “Les vitraux de la Sainte-Chapelle,” Revue de l’Art 1-2 (1968), 13-15, figs. 9-11; Grodecki and Brisac (1984), 101, 255, fig. 93.
Collection: Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Object/Accession: A. 30-24-1; B. 30-24-2; C. 30-24-3: All given by Mrs. Clement Biddle Wood in memory of her husband
A. Orchards (30-24-1) and; B. Vineyards (30-24-2), outside Damascus, devastated by Holofernes’ army; C. Holofernes’ army crossing the Euphrates
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