id: 135539
accession number: 1958.67
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updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:45.707000
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
title: Mourner from the Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1364–1404)
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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:
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culture: Netherlands, active Dijon, 15th century
technique: vizille alabaster
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Gothic
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
* Claus de Werve (Netherlandish, 1380–1439) - artist
active in Burgundy (mostly Dijon) from 1396 until his death.
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measurements: Overall: 41.1 x 17.6 x 11 cm (16 3/16 x 6 15/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: 25th Anniversary Exhibition
opening date: 1961-01-13T05:00:00
25th Anniversary Exhibition. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (organizer) (January 13-March 5, 1961).
title: European Art Around 1400
opening date: 1962-05-07T04:00:00
European Art Around 1400. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Wien, Austria (organizer) (May 7-July 31, 1962).
title: The International Style: The Arts in Europe around 1400
opening date: 1962-10-23T04:00:00
The International Style: The Arts in Europe around 1400. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (October 23-December 2, 1962).
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: 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: The Road to Van Eyck
opening date: 2012-10-13T00:00:00
The Road to Van Eyck. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands (organizer) (October 13, 2012-February 10, 2013).
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Deux Pleurants de Jaume Cascalle Provenant des Sepultures Royales de Poblet, Musées du Louvre, Paris, France, (May, 1949).', 'opening_date': '1949-05-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'In Memoriam Leonard C. Hanna Jr., The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 3/4/1958 - 4/6/1958).', 'opening_date': '1958-03-04T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Treasures in America, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, (January 13-March 5, 1961).', 'opening_date': '1961-01-13T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'European Art about 1400, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria (May-July 1962).', 'opening_date': '1962-05-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'International Style, The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, (October 22-December 30, 1962).', 'opening_date': '1962-10-22T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Les Pleurant dans la Sculpture du Moyen Age en Europe, Musée de Dijon, Dijon, France; Palais des États de Bourgoge (July 3-September 12, 1971).', 'opening_date': '1971-07-03T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Vicomte Edouard de Broissia & son, Georges (d. 1875), Dijon, France
date: ?-1875
footnotes:
citations:
(M. Legay, Nancy, sold to Charles Stein)
date: 1875-?
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citations:
(Charles Stein, Paris, France)
date:
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(Duveen Brothers., Paris, France)
date: 1919-?
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citations:
Clarence Mackay (d. 1939), New York, NY
date: by 1922-1939
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citations:
(Jacques Seligmann, New York, NY, sold to Leonard C. Hanna)
date: 1939-1940
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citations:
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 1940-1958
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1958-
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RELATED WORKS
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relationship: related series
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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
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CITATIONS
Musée Des Beaux-Arts, Dijon France
page number:
url: http://mba-collections.dijon.fr/ow4/mba/voir.xsp?id=00101-25102&qid=sdx_q4&n=10&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:
Cleveland Museum of Art, and William Mathewson Milliken. In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. [Catalogue]. 1958.
page number: no. 161
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. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 256-257; cat. no. VI-21
url: https://archive.org/details/TreasuresMedievalFrance/page/n283
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 64
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n88
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. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 4
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: p. 411-424
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160010
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. Dijon, France: Musée des beaux-arts, 2004.
page number: Cat. No.83; reproduced .p.233.no.35
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
Klein, Holger A. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 202-205, no. 73
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:
Anna Simon, review of The Road to Van Eyck, by Stephan Kemperdick und Friso Lammertse, Journal für Kunstgeschichte 17 (April 2013): 258-268.
page number: Reproduced: p. 259
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:
Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
page number: Mentioned: p. 188-191; Reproduced: p. 189
url:
Freundeskreis des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums. Hommage: Renate Eikelmann. München: Sieveking Verlag, 2018.
page number: Reproduced: p. 60
url:
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