id: 135538 accession number: 1958.66 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.66 updated: 2025-07-15 22:17:34.687000 Mourner from the Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1364–1404), 1404–10. Claus de Werve (Netherlandish, 1380–1439). Vizille alabaster; overall: 41 x 12.7 x 15 cm (16 1/8 x 5 x 5 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., 1958.66 title: Mourner from the Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1364–1404) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1404–10 creation date earliest: 1404 creation date latest: 1410 current location: 109 Gothic Painting and Sculpture creditline: Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr. copyright: --- culture: Netherlands, active Dijon, 15th century technique: vizille alabaster department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Gothic type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Claus de Werve (Netherlandish, 1380–1439) - artist active in Burgundy (mostly Dijon) from 1396 until his death. --- measurements: Overall: 41 x 12.7 x 15 cm (16 1/8 x 5 x 5 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Gothic Art 1360-1440 opening date: 1963-08-06T04:00:00 Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963). title: Treasures of Medieval France opening date: 1966-11-16T05:00:00 Treasures of Medieval France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1966-January 29, 1967). title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: Dukes and Angels: Art from the Court of Burgundy (1364-1419) opening date: 2004-05-27T00:00:00 Dukes and Angels: Art from the Court of Burgundy (1364-1419). Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, Dijon, France (May 27-September 15, 2004); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2004-January 9, 2005). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009). title: The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy opening date: 2010-03-01T00:00:00 The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 1-May 23, 2010). title: Johan Maelwael from Guelders opening date: 2017-10-06T04:00:00 Johan Maelwael from Guelders. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (organizer) (October 6, 2017-January 7, 2018). title: Riemenschneider and Late Medieval Alabaster opening date: 2023-03-26T04:00:00 Riemenschneider and Late Medieval Alabaster. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-July 23, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Deux Pleurants de Jaume Cascalle Provenant des Sepultures Royales de Poblet, Musées de France, Paris, France (May 1949).', 'opening_date': '1949-05-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE M. M. Hocquart, Dijon, France date: footnotes: citations: Vicomte Edouard de Broissia & son, Georges, (d. 1875) Dijon, France date: -1875 footnotes: citations: (M. Legley, Nancy, sold to Charles Stein) date: 1875-? footnotes: citations: (Charles Stein, Paris, France) date: footnotes: citations: Baron Arthur de Schickler, Paris, France date: footnotes: citations: Count de Pourtales, Paris, France date: footnotes: citations: (Duveen Bros., Paris, France) date: 1919-? footnotes: citations: Clarence Mackay (d. 1939), New York, NY date: by 1922-1939 footnotes: citations: (Jacques Seligmann, New York, sold to Leonard C. Hanna) date: 1939-1940 footnotes: citations: Leonard C. Hanna, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1940-1958 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1958- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 119132 Mourner from the Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1364–1404), 1404–1410. Claus de Werve (Netherlandish, 1380–1439). Vizille alabaster; overall: 41.7 x 16.6 x 11.7 cm (16 7/16 x 6 9/16 x 4 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1940.128 relationship: related series id: 135539 Mourner from the Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1364–1404), 1404–10. Claus de Werve (Netherlandish, 1380–1439). Vizille alabaster; overall: 41.1 x 17.6 x 11 cm (16 3/16 x 6 15/16 x 4 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., 1958.67 relationship: related series id: 119143 Mourner from the Tomb of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria, 1443–45. Jean de la Huerta (Spanish, active Burgundy, 1431–62). Salins alabaster; overall: 41 x 20.3 x 12.4 cm (16 1/8 x 8 x 4 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1940.129 relationship: --- CITATIONS Musée Des Beaux-Arts, Dijon France page number: url: http://mba-collections.dijon.fr/ow4/mba/voir.xsp?id=00101-25103&qid=sdx_q8&n=3&e= Beaulieu, Michèle. 1949. "Deux pleurants de Jaume Cascalls provenant des sépultures royales de Poblet: Musée du Louvre". 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Potter; distributed by Crown, 1970. page number: p. 280 url: Musée des beaux-arts de Dijon, and Pierre Quarré. Les pleurants des tombeaux des ducs de Bourgogne. 1971. page number: pl. 38 url: Clasen, Karl Heinz. Der Meister Der Schönen Madonnen: Herkunft, Entfaltung Und Umkreis. Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1974. page number: pp. 91, 203, abb. 13 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 72 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n92 Alsop, Joseph. The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena Wherever These Have Appeared. 1982. page number: pl. 2, No. 4 url: Schreckenberg, Hella, and Claus Sluter. Claus Sluter. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1987. page number: p. 32, fig. 53 url: De Winter, Patrick M. "Art from the Duchy of Burgundy." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 10 (1987). page number: pp. 411-424 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160010 Petrusevich, N. B., I︠U︡. S. Pamfilov, Ljudmila Brylenko, and E. B. Georgievskai︠a︡. Five Hundred Years of French Painting: The Hermitage, Leningrad, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1990. page number: p. 56, no. 20 url: Journées internationales Claus Sluter, and Claus Sluter. Actes des Journées internationales Claus Sluter: Septembre 1990. Dijon: Association Claus Sluter, 1992. page number: fig. 6, p. 186 url: Morand, Kathleen, Claus Sluter, and David Finn. Claus Sluter: Artist at the Court of Burgundy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. page number: p. 359, no. 35, pls. 134-35 url: Gibson, Walter S., and Laurinda S. Dixon. In Detail: New Studies of Northern Renaissance Art in Honor of Walter S. Gibson. [Lieu de publication non identifié]: Brepols, 1998. page number: p. 179, fig. 26 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: no. 25, pp. 28-9 & 117 url: Fliegel, Stephen N., Sophie Jugie, and Virginie Barthélémy. Art from the Court of Burgundy: The Patronage of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless 1364-1419 : Musée Des Beaux-Arts De Dijon, May 28-September 15, 2004, the Cleveland Museum of Art, October 24, 2004-January 9, 2005. [Dijon]: Musée des beaux-arts, 2004. page number: Cat. No. 83, p. 233 url: Domine, Heidi, "Time Machine", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 44 no. 01, January 2004 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8-9 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2004-01/page/n7 Fliegel, Stephen. "Patronage and the Burgundian Court, 1364-1419" The Magazine Antiques (October 2004). page number: pp. 142-151, pl. 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. page number: Cat. No. 24B; pp. 164-165 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: pp. 134-5 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 272 url: Mikolic, Amanda. Fashionable Mourners: Bronze Statuettes from the Rijksmuseum. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017. page number: Reproduced: p. 1, fig. 1 url: Freundeskreis des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums. Hommage: Renate Eikelmann. München: Sieveking Verlag, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 60 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.66/1958.66_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.66/1958.66_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.66/1958.66_full.tif