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Musical Angels
ca. 1450–1500
Partially gilt and polychromed alabaster
20.3 × 20.3 × 5.7 cm (8 × 8 × 2 1/4 in.)
Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896, Fund
1949.99
Status:
On view
Culture:
French or Burgundian
Period:
15th century
Classification:
Sculpture
Provenance:
Comte de Montbrizon, Château du Roch, France; Chauncey J. Blair, Chicago; [French & Co., New York]; Joseph Brummer, New York
Bibliography:
Dorothy Gillerman, Gothic Sculpture in America: The New England Museums, 1 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1989), 315–16, no. 234, ill.
J. L. Schrader, The waning Middle Ages; an exhibition of French and Netherlandish art from 1350 to 1500, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The waning of the Middle Ages, exh. cat. (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1969), 57, no. 58, pl. 58.
The eye listens: music in the visual arts: an exhibition to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Dwight Art Memorial, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, October 23 through November 15, 1950, exh. cat. (South Hadley, Massachusetts: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 1950), no. 21, fig. 21.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
