Column and Capital

ca. 1100-1130

French

On View

Romanesque Hall, Level 1, West Wing

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Title Column and Capital

Artwork Date ca. 1100-1130

Artist ----------

Life Dates ----------

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. French

Medium Basalt or other volcanic stone

Dimensions Overall: 92 × 15 1/2 × 16 inches (233.7 × 39.4 × 40.6 cm)

Classification Architecture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass

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. 25.86

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Provenance

the church of St.-Géraud (Aurillac, France). until November 6, 1922, (Altounian-Lorbet Antiquaires, Paris, France)

(Brummer Gallery, Paris, France)

(Brummer Gallery, New York, New York)

Lillian Henkel Haass (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1925-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Cahn, Walter. "Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. VIII. The Detroit Institute of Arts." Gesta 10, no. 2 (1971): pp. 71–80, p. 73, no. 3 (ill.).

Durliat, Marcel. "Saint-Géraud d'Aurillac aux Époques Préromane et Romane." Revue de la Haute-Auvergne (1973): pp. 329–341, p. 340.

Little, Charles T., David L. Simon and Leslie Bussis. "Romanesque Sculpture in North American Collections. XXV. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Part V. Southwestern France." Gesta 26, no. 1 (1987) p. 74.

Chardonnet, Sylvain. "L'abbaye Saint-Géraud d'Aurillac et sa sculpture monumentale à l'époque romane. Typo-chronologies du Xe au XIIe siècle." In Revue de la Haute-Auvergne. Dossier <<Aurillac au Moyen Age>>, Aurillac (2019): pp. 155-170, 161, 166-167.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

French, Column and Capital, ca. 1100-1130, basalt or other volcanic stone. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass, 25.86.

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