id: 135539 accession number: 1958.67 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.67 updated: 2023-08-24 11:35:27.973000 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) 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: 41.1 x 17.6 x 11 cm (16 3/16 x 6 15/16 x 4 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Deux Pleurants de Jaume Cascalle Provenant des Sepultures Royales de Poblet, Musées du Louvre, Paris, France, (May, 1949). * In Memoriam Leonard C. Hanna Jr., The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 3/4/1958 - 4/6/1958). * Treasures in America, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, (January 13-March 5, 1961). * European Art about 1400, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria (May-July 1962). * International Style, The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, (October 22-December 30, 1962). * 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). --- PROVENANCE Vicomte Edouard de Broissia & son, Georges (d. 1875), Dijon, France date: ?-1875 footnotes: citations: (M. Legay, Nancy, sold to Charles Stein) date: 1875-? footnotes: citations: (Charles Stein, Paris, France) date: footnotes: citations: (Duveen Brothers., Paris, France) date: 1919-? footnotes: citations: Clarence Mackay (d. 1939), New York, NY date: by 1922-1939 footnotes: citations: (Jacques Seligmann, New York, NY, sold to Leonard C. Hanna) date: 1939-1940 footnotes: citations: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., 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: The use of alabaster in the late Middle Ages began in the 1300s with court art in the circles of French kings, especially in the field of funerary sculpture. digital description: wall description: This figure comes from the tomb of Duke Philip the Bold from the church of Champmol near Dijon (Burgundy, France). Philip, who founded the monastery and designated it as his burial place, hired the best artists, many of whom came from the Netherlands. While the commission was given in 1381, the work was not completed until 1410, six years after the duke’s death.

This mourner is unusual for the time because it is not carved as a static low relief on the pedestal of the tomb but interact with the viewers and their fellow procession members. The lifelike quality of the figure is due in large part to the alabaster. Its softness allowed artists to carve details into the material, and the transparent, milky white stone could also be polished to a high gloss. --- 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: 135538 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 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: id: None None relationship: --- CITATIONS Musée Des Beaux-Arts, Dijon France page number: url: http://mba-collections.dijon.fr/ow4/mba/voir.xsp?id=00101-25102&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: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.67/1958.67_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.67/1958.67_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.67/1958.67_full.tif