France, Normandy Sees Cathedral (?) (Angels); Burgundy, Sens (?) (Grisaille trefoils)
c. 1275
Pot metal and white glass
A: 280.7 x 100.0 (110 1/2 x 39 3/8) B: 282.6 x 99.7 (111 1/4 x 39 1/4)
A1, A2, and A3 have few replacements; B1 is a heavily restored panel; B2 and B3 have minor replacements; windows recomposed
Provenance: Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, to 1924; Julien Chappee, Le Mans; A. Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, to 1927; William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles, to 1945
Bibliography: Hearst ms. (1942), nos. 236, 237; Heilbronner sale (1924), no. 94; LACMA Quarterly (1945), 3; Normile (1946), 39-44, ill.; Ebria Feinblatt, “The Gothic Room,” in Los Angeles County Museum Brochure (Los Angeles, 1948), 5-6, ill.; Meredith Parsons Lillich, The Armour of Light: Stained Glass in Western France from 1250 to 1325 (Berkeley, in press), chap. 8.
Collection: Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, California)
Object/Accession: 45.21.12 A and B William Randolph Hearst Collection