About the Artwork
Saint Benedict
between 1530 and 1540
Master of the Saint Alexis Roundels
active 1530-1540
German
Unknown
White glass with silver stain and vitreous paint
Includes leaded framework: 5/8 x 13 1/8 in.diam. ( 1.6 x 33.4 cm)
Stained Glass
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass and Mrs. Trent McMath
40.126
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, at right and left of the figure's head: S bñ dict'
Provenance
Earl of Essex (Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire, England)
(Grosvenor Thomas, London, England)
1923, by descent to his son (Roy Grosvenor Thomas, New York, New York, USA)
Julius Haass (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)
his daughter, Lillian Henckel Haass and Mrs. Trent McNath (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1940-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Husband, T.B. Stained Glass Before 1700 in American Collections: Silver-stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels (Corpus Vitrearum Checklist IV). Studies in the History of Art, vol. 39. Washington, DC, 1991, pp. 111, 114.
Raguin, V. and H. Zakin. Stained Glass Before 1700 in the collections of the Midwest States (Corpus Vitrearum United States of America 7), vol. I, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan. London, 2001, pp. 245-248.
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Master of the Saint Alexis Roundels, Saint Benedict, between 1530 and 1540, white glass with silver stain and vitreous paint. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass and Mrs. Trent McMath, 40.126.
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