Scene from the Life of Saint Eustace

1543

Attributed to Jean Pinaigiers French

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When Eustace refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods as commanded by the emperor Hadrian, the saint and his family were placed alive in a bronze bull heated by flames to be killed. The legend tells that after three days the family was removed from the bull, and their dead bodies were miraculously undamaged.
By the early sixteenth century the color range of stained glass had expanded and compositions were increasingly influenced by approaches to pictorial space and narrative derived from Italian painting. The use of grisaille, a black and white drawing technique, on the glass, permitted delineation of facial features, hair, textile patterns, and architectural elements in great detail.

Title Scene from the Life of Saint Eustace

Artwork Date 1543

Artist Attributed to Jean Pinaigiers

Life Dates ----------

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

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Medium Stained glass: pot metal; white glass with silver stain, sanguine, and jean cousin

Dimensions Overall (each panel): 84 1/4 × 34 1/4 × 1 5/8 inches (214 × 87 × 4.1 cm)

Classification Stained Glass

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of K. T. Keller

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 58.113

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Church of St. Patrice (Rouen, France);
until 1928, (A. Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, New York, USA);
1928, purchased by William Randolph Hearst (Los Angeles, California, USA);
1951, bequeathed to the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
after 1956, K.T. Keller (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1958-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Stained Glass Before 1700 in American Collections: Mid-western and Western States (Corpus Vitrearum Checklist III). Studies in the History of Art 28. Washington, DC, 1989, p. 8 (ill.) p. 166 (ill. A).

Raguin, V. and H. Zakin. Stained Glass before 1700 in the Collections of the Midwest States (Corpus Vitrearum United States of America, Part VII) London, 2001, vol. 1, pp. 248-254.

Gallagher, B. "William Randolph Hearst and the Detroit Institute of Arts." Bulletin of the DIA 78, nos. 1/2 (2004): pp. 55-56, fig. 2 (ill.).

Hammer Galleries. Art Objects and Furnishings from the William Randolph Hearst Collection. Catalogue Raisonné Comprising Illustrations of Representative Works Together with Comprehensive Descriptions of Books, Autographs, and Manuscripts and Complete Index. New York, 1941, p. 329; p. 141 (ill.).

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attributed to Jean Pinaigiers, Scene from the Life of Saint Eustace, 1543, stained glass: pot metal; white glass with silver stain, sanguine, and Jean Cousin. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of K. T. Keller, 58.113.