id: 135538 accession number: 1958.66 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.66 updated: 2022-06-22 09:00:47.941000 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 (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 (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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Deux Pleurants de Jaume Cascalle Provenant des Sepultures Royales de Poblet, Musées de France, Paris, France (May 1949). --- 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: A plaster cast of this mourner decorates the empty niche in the Tomb of Philip the Bold in Dijon, France. digital description: wall description: Throughout most of their history these alabaster mourners have evoked a sense of awe and mystery as well as curiosity and admiration. They were originally arranged in processional order around the sides of the ducal tomb within a marble arcade in the Chartreuse de Champmol. The realistically carved mourners remain the most famous elements from Philip the Bold’s tomb. Carved by Claus de Werve, no two are alike. They retain minute details of costume and features, and the faces of some are nearly portrait-like in their depiction of facial creases and expression, suggesting actual individuals, while the faces of others are partly obscured by their cowls. --- 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). 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: id: None None 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". Musées De France. 96-98. page number: no. Iv url: Parker, Clifford S., and Paul L. Grigaut. Initiation à la culture française. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. page number: p. 63 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 64 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n88 Wixom, William D. Treasures from Medieval France. 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"Patronage and the Burgundian Court, 1364-1419" The Magazine Antiques (October 2004). page number: pp. 142-151, pl. XII url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 202-205, no. 73 url: Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. page number: p. 188-9, no. 68 url: Baron, Françoise, Sophie Jugie, and Benoît Lafay. Les tombeaux des ducs de Bourgogne: création, destruction, restauration. Paris: Somogy, 2009. page number: p. 132, cat. no. 5 url: Kemperdick, Stephan, and Friso Lammertse. The Road to Van Eyck. Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2012.
. 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