About the Artwork
Monstrance
ca. 1850
Francois Sasseville
1797-1864
Canadian
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 26 1/8 × 13 3/4 inches (66.4 × 34.9 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth, Allan and Warren Shelden Fund
70.650
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Markings
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Stamped, once on upper verso of cross finial in oval: FS
Provenance
(reportedly) church of Saint-Denis de Kamouraska (Kamouraska County, Quebec)
S. Breitman Antiques Ltd. (Westmount, Montreal)
1970-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Fox, Ross. "French Canadian Liturgical Silver.” Bulletin of the DIA, 52 (1973): p. 103.
Fox, Ross. “French Canadian Silver.” University Liggett Antiques Show. Gross Pointe Woods, 1975, p. 80.
Fox, Ross. Traditional Arts of French Canada. Windsor, 1975, no. 50.
Fox. Quebec and Related Silver. Detroit, 1978, pp. 131-133 (fig. 55).
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Francois Sasseville, Monstrance, ca. 1850, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth, Allan and Warren Shelden Fund, 70.650.
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