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Corpus Vitrearum USA

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Ancestor of Christ (Melea Or Melchi) (?)

Ancestor of Christ (Melea Or Melchi) (?)France, Braine, Abbey Church of Saint-Yved, clerestory (?)
c. 1200

167.5 X 62 (66 X 24 3/8) H. top panel, including old canopy: 57 (22 1/2); center panel: 60.5 (23 1/8)
Bottom panel modern, except for three fragments; left halves of the two upper panels heavily restored; fill of later quarries with fleurs-de-lis above the canopy

Provenance: P.W. French & Co., New York, 1920
Bibliography: (?) referred to by François de Guilhermy, “Notes sur diverses localites de la France,” 16, Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, MS fr. 6109, f. 257; Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis VI (1921), l-6; Orin Skinner, “Stained Glass in the City Museum of St. Louis,” Stained Glass 29, l-2 (Spring-Summer 1934), 7-10, ill.; The St. Louis Art Museum Handbook of the Collection (1975), 53, ill.; M. H. Caviness in Studies on Medieval Stained Glass: Selected Papers from the XI International Colloquium of the Corpus Vitrearum [Corpus Vitrearum United States: Occasional Papers I] (New York, 1985), 43-44, 46 n. 40, fig. 13; Caviness, Reims and Braine, Catalogue A, no. 11, pls. 71-74, 199.

Collection: The St. Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, Missouri)
Object/Accession: 137:20, Museum Purchase

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Entry From: Checklist III Filed Under: Missouri, St. Louis, The St. Louis Art Museum

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