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Moses Myers House

The home of the first permanent Jewish residents of Norfolk, this historic house offers a glimpse of the life of a wealthy early 19th-century merchant family.
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Jean Outland Chrysler Library

With an extensive collection of more than 106,000 rare and unique volumes relating to the history of art, the Jean Outland Chrysler Library is one of the most significant art libraries in the South. More about the Library

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Jean Outland Chrysler Library

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Saint Nicholas

Maker: attributed to Guillaume Barbe (French, documented 1456 - 1488)

Date: ca. 1470

Medium: Glass with silver stain and vitreous enamel

Dimensions:

59 1/16 × 27 3/8 in. (150 × 69.5 cm)

Classification: Glass

Credit Line: Museum purchase

Object number: 2019.36.1

Terms

Christianity
Rouen
stained glass
glass

On view

Descriptiona monumental lancet panel depicting Saint Nicholas of Myra standing before a purple “cloth of honor” woven with a golden pomegranate pattern and stylized bird-and-vine motifs. The figure wears a blue cope lined with green and a gem-studded mitre and holds a gold crozier, marking his rank as Bishop. He raises his right hand in the sign of Benediction, and looks in three-quarter profile to the viewer’s right. A complex stone architectural setting is visible above the saint’s head and below his feet. In the lower right portion of the panel, three naked youths face Saint Nicholas with their hands at prayer. The story of these youths’ resurrection by Saint Nicholas was popularized in the Golden Legend, a late medieval hagiography (an account of the legendary lives of saints) by Jacobus de Voragine (ca. 1230-1299). The panel consists of blue, green, purple, red, and clear flat glass decorated with silver stain and vitreous enamels, joined together by lead cames and stabilized with horizontal reinforcing bars. The work is set into a rectangular black frame and illuminated with LED as a lightbox.

Provenance Private collection, Provence, France; Sam Fogg, via auction, 2010s; purchased by the Chrysler Museum of Art, 2019.