France, Soissons, Cathedral of Gervais and Protais (?)
1210-1215
Pot metal glass
73 x 73.5 (28 3/4 x 29)
All but the figures is stopgap of the same period, or new; head of first cleric repainted; lower portion of second cleric’s tunic replaced
Provenance: Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, to 1921; Grosvenor Thomas, London; Roy Grosvenor Thomas, New York, to 1924; Julius H. Haass; Lillian Henckel Haass, Grosse Pointe, Mich., to 1959
Bibliography: Wilfred Drake, Album, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, E 2399-1921, CG 51; Grosvenor Thomas Stock Book no. I, 282-283, unnumbered; Catalogue des obiets d’art et haute curiosité… composant Jes collections de M. Raoul Heilbronner [sale cat., Galerie Georges Petit, 22-23 June] (Paris, 1921), 62, lot no. 204; Madeline H. Caviness, Marilyn Beaven, and Elizabeth Pastan, “The Gothic Window from Soissons: A Reconsideration,” Fenway Court, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (1983), rn, n. 18; Barnet (1986), 41.
Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan)
Object/Accession: 59.34, Gift of Lillian Henckel Haass