Southern Lowlands, Heverlee, Louvain, Premonstratensian Abbey of Parc, Cloister
1635-1644
Pot metal and white glass with silver stain, sanguine, enamel
A: 41.9 x 48.9 (16 1/2 x 19 1/4) B: 41.9 x 49.2 (16 1/2 x 19 3/8)
Several unmended breaks
Provenance: Abbey of Parc, to 1828; M. Dansaert, Brussels; Mvr. Godtschalck-Dansaert to before l880; Charles Licot, Brussel; 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. 310 (?). Related material: Annales de l’Academie d’archeologie de Belgique, t. XXVIII, 2Á serie, t. VIII, Abbes du Parc, pres de Louvain, Pl. II, Armoires de l’abbaye; J. Helbig, “Anciennes verrières de l’Abbaye de Parc, Bulletin des Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, 30, 4e ser. (1958), 71-82; F. Maes, “De oude glasramen van de abdig 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 (no letter); B. 1942.104.2-3C
A. Arms of Abbot Iwanus (Yvan) of Bierbeek, 7th Abbot of Parc; B. Arms of Johannes Lapicida (Jean a Lapide) of Vinckenbosch, 5th Abbot of Parc
Arms: A: Argent a fess gules surmounted by a bishop’s crozier (Iwanus of Bierbeek); B. Quarterly; l and 4 azure three mallets two and one or; 2 and 3 argent on a fess gules a demi-lion rampant sable surmounted by a bishop’s crozier (Johannes Lapicida of Vinckeqbosch)
Workshop of Jean de Caumont
Inscriptions: A. R.D. IWANVS EX BARONIESVS/BIERBA[.]EN VII ABBAS PARCEN + /ANNO 1212; On scroll: NE QVID NIMIS; B. On scroll: NE QVID NIMIS; below: R.D. IOANNES LAPICIDA DE/ V1NCKENBOSCH XV. ABBAS/PAR CENSIS. A 1339.