About the Artwork
The Legend of Theophilus
mid-13th century
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French
French
Stained and leaded glass
Overall: 98 × 36 1/4 × 4 1/2 inches (248.9 × 92.1 × 11.4 cm)
Stained Glass
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
44.82
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Markings
Inscribed, beneath top panel.
Provenance
William Randolph Hearst (New York, New York, USA). (Gimble Brothers)
1944-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Art Objects and Furnishing from the William Randolph Hearst Collection: Catalogue Raisonne Comprising Illustrations of Representative Works Together with Manuscripts, and Complete Index. New York, 1941, p. 329, no. 160-52.
Raguin, V. C. Stained Glass in Thirteenth Century Burgundy. Princeton, 1982, pp. 68-71, (fig. 105).
Cothren, Michael W. "The Iconography of Theophilus Windows in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century," Speculum, vol. 59, no. 2 (1984): p. 336.
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French, The Legend of Theophilus, mid-13th century, stained and leaded glass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 44.82.
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