Southern Lowlands, Heverlee, Louvain, Premonstratensian Abbey of Parc, Cloister
1635-1644
White glass with silver stain, sanguine, enamel
A: 76.2 x 49 (30 x 19 1/4); B: 76.2 x 49 (30 x 19 1/4)
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: Libertus de Pape, Summaria cronologia… (Louvain, 1662), 441-445 records the 42 couplets composed by Eustachius de Pomreux du San to accompany the narrative scenes; J. Helbig, “Anciennes verrières de l’Abbaye de Parc,” Bulletin des Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, 301 4e 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. 1942.104.2-14C; B. l942.104.2-15C
Workshop of Jean de Caumont
Inscriptions: A: above: BVRCHARDVM AMPLEXO LACRYMARV. IT FERTILE FLVMEN:/NAM LAES HIS VITAE GIGNITVR HVGO NOVAE./AÁ DC. XLW; below: TRAlECTI, VELVM SERVAT!l I N AERA FERTVR,/SED SACRA NORBERTI IN BRACHIA SPONTEREDIT./AÁ M.D.C. XXXXIII; B: Above: PAPA SERMO SIT IR RITVS POTESTATEM, NE ILLl,/LlB PRAEDICET OR.BE, ER VT IN TOTO FACIT/XXXX111 MDC; below: SA CTVS OBIT RAMVMOE FEREN APPARET OLfV AE:/I VRE NOTAM PACIS, PACIS AMATOR HABET/A; center: IM