About the Artwork
Sarcophagus Fragment
between 1125 and 1150
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French
French
Red sandstone with traces of polychromy
Overall: 21 × 27 × 10 inches (53.3 × 68.6 × 25.4 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Arnold Seligman, Rey and Company
44.278
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Dr. R. Forrer (Strasbourg, France)
Arnold Seligman, Rey and Co.
1944-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Cahn, W. "Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections." Gesta 10, no. 2, figs. 2 and 3 (ills.). [as a sarcophagus fragment from Alsace, 1125/1150.]
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French, Sarcophagus Fragment, between 1125 and 1150, red sandstone with traces of polychromy. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Arnold Seligman, Rey and Company, 44.278.
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