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Scenes from the Infancy Cycle: The Adoration of the Magi
Scenes from the Infancy Cycle: The Adoration of the Magi

Scenes from the Infancy Cycle: The Adoration of the Magi

CultureFrench
Dateca. 1460-1480
MediumStained and painted glass
DimensionsFramed: 43 3/4 x 26 1/8 inches (111.13 x 66.36 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number44-49/4
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On view
Gallery Location
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This is one of three windows in the Museum's collection from the church at Loisy-en-Brie in northeastern France.  While the total number of windows made for this church is unknown, numerous extant stained-glass panels including the present examples indicate that the building contained at least two separate decorative programs: the Infancy Cycle, to which the Museum's Nativity and Adoration of the Magi belonged, and scenes from the Passion of Christ, which included The Crucifixion.
Provenance

Loisy-en-Brie, France;

 

With Jacques Seligmann et Cie, Paris, by 1909;

 

Purchased from Jacques Seligmann et Cie by Ambrose Monell (1873-1921), Tuxedo Park, NY, 1909-1921;

 

Inherited by his wife, Maude Monell (1877-1958), Tuxedo Park, NY, 1921-November 28, 1930;

 

Purchased at her sale, Collection of the late Colonel Ambrose Monell, Tuxedo Park, New York, sold by order of Mrs. Ambrose Monell, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, November 28, 1930, lot 53, through Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., by William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), New York and San Simeon, CA, 1930-July 28, 1944 [1];

 

Purchased from Hearst by Brummer Gallery, New York, stock no. N6089, July 28, 1944-December 1, 1944 [2];

 

Purchased from Brummer, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1944.

 

 

NOTES:

 

[1] William Randolph Hearst Archive, Long Island University Post (S/B lot 405, art. 4, Album 101, p. 35).

 

[2] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Library and Archive, Brummer Gallery Records, Glass, stained glass, and crystal, Object inventory card number N6089.

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