Southern Lowlands, Heverlee, Louvain, Premonstratensian Abbey of Parc, Cloister
1635-1644
A: White glass with silver stain, sanguine, and enamel; B: White glass with silver stain and sanguine
A: 91.4 x 64.7 (36 x 25 1/2); B: 91.4 x 64.1 (36 x 25 1/4)
Several losses
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. 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 Oudheidk undige Kring voor Leuven en omgeving, Deel XII (Leuven, 1972).
Collection: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Connecticut)
Object/Accession: A. 1942.104.2 (8C); B. 1942.104.2 (11C)
Workshop of Jean de Caumont
Inscriptions: A: OLRIGE ONE OEVS MEVS IN CONSPECTV TYO VIAM MEAM; B: scroll: SVB TVVM PRAESIDIVM / CONFVGI M[.]ss DEi GENITRDC