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Two stained-glass windows in polychrome leaded glass depicti…
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159
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Two stained-glass windows in polychrome leaded glass depicti…
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
Two stained-glass windows in polychrome leaded glass depicting:
- one showing Pentecost within a quatrefoil with serrated edges on a chequered background.
Late 19th century / early 20th century, in the medieval style
Height: 77 cm - Width: 77 cm
(minor imperfections)
- the other depicting four profiles: one of a woman and three of men, one of whom bears the inscription ‘ROBERT PINAIGRIER 1557’, set against a chequered background.
19th century, in the Renaissance style
Height: 33 cm – Length: 86 cm
(minor imperfections)
Re-set in a door
Total height: 136 cm – Total width: 95 cm
The Pinaigrier family owed its fame in the 19th century to a fictional glass painter, Robert Pinaigrier, to whom the French master glassmaker and historiographer Pierre Le Vieil (1708–1772) mistakenly attributed several stained-glass windows in the churches of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont and Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais in Paris, which were in fact created by Jean Chastellain (1490–1541). The only member of the Pinaigrier family named Robert is thought to have been born in 1603, well after these stained-glass windows were created.
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