France, Flavigny-sur-Moselle, Priory church of Saint-Fermin
1531
Pot metal, white glass, silver stain, and sanguine
361.2 x 168.2 (142 x 66)
Minor replacements in right arm of Christ and damascened ground of predella
Provenance: A. Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York; Thomas Fortune Ryan, New York; John Barry Ryan, New York
Bibliography: Abbe Guillaume “Notice sur le prieure de Flaviy? sur-Moselle et sur quelques personnages qui l’ont illustre,î Memoires de la Societe d’archeologie lorraine 3rd s., no. 5 (1877), 223-328; Edmond des Robert, “Trois vitraux du prieure de Flavigny,” Bull etin de la Societe d’archeologie lorraine (1907), 212-214, ill.; Durr Friedley, “A Renaissance Window,” Art in America I(1913), 136-140; Friedley, “Stained Glass fromth e Abbey of Flavigny,” Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art o.s. 12, no. 5 (May 1917), l12-rr 6, ill.; Léon Germain de Maidy, “Sur les anciens vitraux de Flavigny, ” Bulletin de la Societe d ‘archeologie lorraine (1927), 57-60, 73-78; Jean Lafond in Marcel Aubert et al., Le vitrail français (Paris, 1958), 243-244; Victor Beyer, Jacques Choux, and Lucien Ledeur, Vitraux de France du Mayen-Age a la Renaissance: Alsace, Lorraine, Franch e-Comte (Colmar, 1970)1 141- 142; Choux, “Valentin Bausch a Saint-Nicolas-de-Port et a Flavigny,” Le pa ys lorrain 3 (1973), 157-170, ill.; Michel Herold, “Le vitrail en Lorraine a la fin du Mayen Age” (Ph.D. diss., Université de Nancy, 1983), l 14-117; Herold, “Les vi traux anciens de Lorraine: Richesse et originalite,” in Le vitrail en Lorraine du Xlle au X Xe siecle (Nancy, 1983), 63; Herold and Frances Roussel, “Catalogue: Vitraux deplaces,” in Le vitrail en Lorraine du X II e au X Xe siecle (Nancy, 1983), no. 185; Window Panel fro m the Abbey Church of Flavigny [Bulletin of St. Joseph Church] (Stockbridge, Mass., n.d.), ill.
Collection: St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church (Stockbridge, Massachusetts)
Object/Accession: Unnumbered
Arms: Argent three lions rampant sable, armed and langued gules, ducally crowned or (Wary de Lucy) Valentin Bousch (active 1521-1539)
Inscriptions: on tablets in predella: (LEFT) FODE/ RVNT/M[. jV 5/ ET PEDE5/MEOS/ DAVIT/PS/ 44; (CENTER) FRAVS/INLMICA/ LVCl/1531 /FIL (initials of motto of donor); (RIGHT) EGO SI/EXALTA/TVS FVE/ RO OLA/TRAHA/AD ME/IOANNES/ 12; on cross: INRI; on phylactery held by prophet: (R)ESAREXI (T)