About the Artwork
Column and Capital
ca. 1100-1130
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French
French
Basalt or other volcanic stone
Overall: 92 × 15 1/2 × 16 inches (233.7 × 39.4 × 40.6 cm)
Architecture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass
25.86
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Provenance
the church of St.-Géraud (Aurillac, France). until November 6, 1922, (Altounian-Lorbet Antiquaires, Paris, France)
(Brummer Gallery, Paris, France)
(Brummer Gallery, New York, New York)
Lillian Henkel Haass (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1925-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Cahn, Walter. "Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. VIII. The Detroit Institute of Arts." Gesta 10, no. 2 (1971): pp. 71–80, p. 73, no. 3 (ill.).
Durliat, Marcel. "Saint-Géraud d'Aurillac aux Époques Préromane et Romane." Revue de la Haute-Auvergne (1973): pp. 329–341, p. 340.
Little, Charles T., David L. Simon and Leslie Bussis. "Romanesque Sculpture in North American Collections. XXV. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Part V. Southwestern France." Gesta 26, no. 1 (1987) p. 74.
Chardonnet, Sylvain. "L'abbaye Saint-Géraud d'Aurillac et sa sculpture monumentale à l'époque romane. Typo-chronologies du Xe au XIIe siècle." In Revue de la Haute-Auvergne. Dossier <<Aurillac au Moyen Age>>, Aurillac (2019): pp. 155-170, 161, 166-167.
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French, Column and Capital, ca. 1100-1130, basalt or other volcanic stone. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass, 25.86.
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