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Saint Nicholas and the Orphan Boys

Saint Nicholas and the Orphan BoysFrance, Evron
c. 1320
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain
49.0 x 48.8 (19 1/4 x 19 3/16)
Borders are stopgaps; inner surface corroded; some retouching; some replacements

Provenance: Roy Grosvenor Thomas, London?
Bibliography: S.Y.S., “Two Examples of Stained Glass,” The Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin 17, no. 65 (February 1920), 5-6, pl. (reversed); Arthur Edwin Bye, “Three Glass Panels with St. Nicholas,” The Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin 19, no. 81 (December 1923), 43-44, ills.; Bye (1925), 14-17, pl. 2 (reversed); D’Ascenzo (1932), 88, fig. 2; The Philadelphia Museum Bulletin 33 178 (May 1938), unpaginated pl., “Chapel from Pierrecourt, XIV century”; Jane Hayward in Gómez-Moreno (1968), no. 193; Hayward and Cahn (1982), 240-243; Lillich (1983), 126-128, fig. 6; Grodecki and Brisac (1984), 163-164, 247-248; Meredith Parsons Lillich, “Bishops from Evron: Three Saints in the Pitcairn Collection and a Fourth in the Philadelphia Museum,” in Studies on Medieval Stained Glass [ Corpus Vitrearum: United States, Occasional Papers I] (New York, 1985), 93-106, fig. 4; Meredith Parsons Lillich, The Armor of Light: Stained Glass in Western France from 1250 to 1325 (Berkeley, in press), chap. 8.

Collection: Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Object/Accession: 19-69

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Entry From: Checklist II Filed Under: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art

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