Chapel

between 1522 and 1524

French

On View

European: Medieval and Renaissance Gothic Chapel, Level 2, West Wing

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This late Gothic chapel, constructed in the early sixteenth century by a noble family for private devotion, is an example of French “flamboyant” architecture, so called because of the elegant flamelike window tracery that characterizes the style. The Gothic period was a time of great change in religious devotion. By the fourteenth century, private worship in individual chapels was increasingly common for the upper classes. This chapel was originally the central feature projecting from the façade of the Herbéviller chateau, indicating its symbolic importance. The stained glass installed in the axial windows over the altar and in the tracery panels is original to the chapel. The medallions installed in the lower windows are the fifteenth-century German pieces added in Detroit with modern strapwork surrounds.

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Artwork Date between 1522 and 1524

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Medium Limestone and stained glass

Dimensions Overall (vault to keystone): 15 ft. 9 3/8 inches (4 m 81 cm) Overall (inner walls, width x length): 116 1/8 × 130 5/16 inches (295 cm × 3 m 31 cm)

Classification Architecture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Booth

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 23.147

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Provenance

Commissioned by Jean Bayer de Boppard, seigneur of Lannoy, and his wife, Eve d'Isenberg (Chateau de Herbéviller, Lorraine, France)

by 1921, (G. T. DeMotte), (Paris,France)

1923-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Ambroise, Émile. "Le Chateau de Lannoy." Revue Lorraine Illustrée 4, no. 1 (1909): 60–64, p. 63 (ill.).

Ambroise, Émile. Les Vieux Chateaux de la Vesouze. Nancy, 1910, p. 104 (ill.).

H[eil], W[alter]. “French Gothic Chapel.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 9, no. 1 (October 1927): 1–2, pp. 1–2.

Robinson, Francis W. and E. P. Richardson. “Recent Acquisitions of Ancient and Medieval Art.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 31, no. 3/4 (1951–1952): 57–80, p. 57 (ill.).

Barnet, Peter. “Introduction” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 67, no. 1 (1992): 1–5, front cover (ill.), pp. 4–5.

Neagley, Linda Elaine. "The Late Gothic Chapel from the Chateau at Herbéviller." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 67, no. 1 (1992): 6–17, pp. 6–17.

Raguin, Virginia Chieffo. "Three German Saints and a Taste for German Expressionism: Valentiner at the Detroit Institute of Arts." Gesta 37, no. 2 (1998): 244–250, p. 249.

Gavrilovich, Peter and Bill McGraw. The Detroit Almanac: 300 Years of Life in the Motor City. Detroit, 2000, pp. 423, 424 (ill.).

Abt, Jeffrey. Valuing Detroit’s Art Museum: A History of Fiscal Abandonment and Rescue. Detroit, 2017, pp. xv, 58, fig. 2.8 (ill.).

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