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Two Scenes from the Life of St. Norbert

Two Scenes from the Life of St. NorbertTwo Scenes from the Life of St. NorbertSouthern Lowlands, Heverlee, Louvain, Premonstratensian Abbey of Parc, Cloister
1635-1644
Pot metal and white glass with silver stain, sanguine, and enamel
A: 91 x 42.7 (35 3/4 x 19 1/4); B: 90.6 x 42.7 (36 x 19 1/4)
A. Several unmended breaks; B. several mending leads; few unmended breaks; scratch of back painting in baldachin

Provenance: Abbey of Parc, to 1828; M. Dansaert, Brussels; Mvr. Godtschalck-Dansaert, to before 1880; Charles Licot, Brussels; H. Moens, Brussels, to before 1913; Vicomte de Sauze (Vicomtesse de Jauze?), Paris; James Henry Smith, New York, to 1910; Harry Payne Whitney, New York, to 1942; Mrs. Flora Whitney Miller, Mrs. Barbara Whitney, and Major Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, to 1942
Bibliography: Smith sale (1910), “Main Hall,” n.p.; Payne Whitney sale (1942), 102, no. 309. Related material: J. C. van de Sterre, Vita Sancti Norberti (Antwerp, 1622), publishes engravings by Theodore and Cornelius Galle after drawings by Martin Perpijn of the life of St. Norbert, on which many of the stained-glass compositions are based; J. Helbig “Anciennes verrières de l’Abbaye de Parc,” Bulletin des Musées Royaux d ‘Art et d’ Histoire, 30, 4´ ser. (1958), 71-82; F. Maes, “De oude glasramen van de abdij van’t Park te Heverlee,” Mededelingen van de Geschied- en Oudheidkundige Kring voor Leuven en omgeving, Deel XII (Leuven, 1972).

Collection: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Connecticut)
Object/Accession: A. 1942.104.2 (9C); B. 1942.104.2 (10C)

A. St. Norbert Receives the White Habit from the Hands of the Virgin; B. St. Norbert in Audience with Pope Gelasius II
Workshop of Jean de Caumont
Inscriptions: A. FILI ACCIPPE CANDIDAM VESTVM; B. on document: GELASIVM P.ii.

Entry From: Checklist III: Addenda Filed Under: Connecticut, New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery

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