Bishop Saint (from the church of Saint Martin of Angers)

ca. 1185–95

On view, 2nd floor, European Art

Medium: Polychrome limestone
Dimensions: 165.1 × 38.1 × 43.8 cm, 725.76 kg (65 × 15 × 17 1/4 in., 1600 lb.)
Credit Line: Gift of Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896
Accession Number: 1926.16
Culture: French, Angers
Period: 12th century
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Church of Saint-Martin at Angers (under the vaults in the east end of the church until June 1925); Maitland F. Griggs Collection, New York.

Bibliography

Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 84–85, fig. 76

Dorothy Gillerman, Gothic Sculpture in America: The New England Museums, 1 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1989), 310–14, no. 232, ill

Katherine Neilson and Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972), no. 117, ill

Konrad Hoffmann, The Year 1200: A Centennial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 12 through May 10, 1970, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970), 6–7, no. 8, ill

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