France, Reims, Abbey Church of Saint-Remi
c. 1185-1205
Pot metal glass
A: 76.8 x 17 (30 1/4 x 6 11/16) FL 32; B: 73.6 X 16.7 (29 X 6 5/8) FL 35; C: 73.2 x 17.2 (28 13/16 x 6 3/4) FL 36; D: 73.2 x 16.8 (28 13/16 x 6 5/8) FL 38; E: 73.2 x 17.5 (28 13/16 x 6 7/8) FL 40; F: 52 x 16.7 (20 1/2 x 6 5/8) FL 41; G: 49.6 x 16.7 (19 1/2 x 6 9/16) FL 44; H: 49.6 X 16.9 (19 1/2 X 6 5/8) FL 46
Many restorations
Provenance: François Haussaire, Paris; Lucien Demotte, Paris, to 14 June 1929; William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles, to 1954
Bibliography: C.W. Post Catalogue (1939), vols. 101-104, lot no. 459-11; Forest Lawn Archives (1956), lot no. 459-11; Demotte (1929), no. 171 ill.; Hearst sale (1941), 329, lot no. 459-11. Borders of the same design appear in N.H.J. Westlake, A History of Design in Painted Glass, I (London, 1881), Pl. XXXIV f; identical pieces are in Amiens, Musee de Picardie: Louis Grodecki et al., Les vitraux de Paris de la region parisienne de la Picardie et du Nord -Pas-de-Calais [Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, France, Recensement I] (Paris, 1978), 222; Caviness, Reims and Braine, Catalogue D, R.b. 24a.
Collection: Forest Lawn (Glendale, California)
Object/Accession: FL lots 32, 35, 36, 38, 40, 41, 44, 46 (formerly attached to FL 11, 33, 34, 64, 65)
B-E, H not illustrated.