The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of September 24, 2023

Stained Glass Panel with Aconite Leaves

c. 1275–1300

France, Alsace(?), 13th century

Pot-metal and white glass, silver stain

Overall: 55.9 x 33.4 cm (22 x 13 1/8 in.)

Gift of Ella Brummer in Memory of her Husband, Ernest Brummer 1977.89

Location

109 Gothic Painting and Sculpture

Description

This stained glass panel is decorated in a grisaille (monochromatic) technique but also includes a colored border using pot-metal glass. The original source of the glass is unknown. The ban of 1134 by the Cistercian Order against using figural art and brightly colored glass suggests this panel may derive from a window in one of that order’s churches. This is the earliest stained glass in the museum’s collection.

Citations
Biro, Yaëlle, Christine E. Brennan, and Christel H. Force. The Brummer Galleries, Paris and New York: Defining Taste from Antiquities to the Avant-Garde. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023. Mentioned: p. 490; reproduced: p. 492, fig. c.7
Exhibition history

New York, NY: Cloisters; 1968. "Medieval Art from Private Collections," cat.no196.

Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1977.89