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LOT 0361
Medieval Stained Glass Head of a Man
NETHERLANDS, BRABANT, 1500-1520 A.D.
12 x 10 5/8 in. (838 grams, 30.3 x 27 cm).
Square composite panel with brown-hued vitreous enamel and pink pigment, irregular profile bust set into the diamond quarries. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAncient Arms and Armour, Stained Glass, Coffrets and Furniture.
Property from a New York Collection, American Art Association, New York, 23 November 1923, no.110 (as Flemish XV-XVI).
The Monastery Stained Glass, 2004.
Accompanied by a previous cataloguing document.
The loose, fluid brushwork and fine touches of pink sanguine pigment on this male head place him firmly in the first decades of the sixteenth century, a dating supported further by the visible hemline of the fashionable pleated shirt covering his neck. These are all characteristic features of Southern Netherlandish stained glass from this period, and parallels offered by programs such as the early sixteenth-century windows in Antwerp Cathedral, the c. 1500 glazing scheme at Sint Gummarus church in Lier just outside Antwerp, as well as at sites such as Notre Dame du Sablon in Brussels, suggest an artist working in Brabant in the early years of the century.
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