id: 136507 accession number: 1960.79 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.79 updated: 2023-08-25 11:18:40.380000 The Trinity, c. 1460. Laurent Girardin (French, 1478). Oil on wood; framed: 134.5 x 114.5 x 8 cm (52 15/16 x 45 1/16 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 114 x 94.5 cm (44 7/8 x 37 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1960.79 title: The Trinity title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1460 creation date earliest: 1455 creation date latest: 1465 current location: 110B Late Gothic creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: France, Lyon, 15th century technique: oil on wood department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Medieval Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Laurent Girardin (French, 1478) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 134.5 x 114.5 x 8 cm (52 15/16 x 45 1/16 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 114 x 94.5 cm (44 7/8 x 37 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty opening date: 1960-11-30T05:00:00 Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961). title: Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church opening date: 2003-09-07T00:00:00 Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7, 2003-September 26, 2004). title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00 The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Camille Barrère (1851-1940), Rome, Italy, by descent to Mme. Albert Cousin date: 1897-1924 footnotes: citations: Mme. Albert Cousin (nee Barrère), by descent to Albert Cousin date: 1924- footnotes: citations: Albert Cousin date: footnotes: citations: (J. Seligmann & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: -1960 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1960- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: When the painting was acquired in 1960 the artist was not yet identified. digital description: wall description: Fundamental to Christian belief, the Holy Trinity refers to the three divine persons in God—God the Father, here depicted wearing a papal tiara, God the Son, crucified on the cross, and the Holy Spirit, represented as a dove. Juxtaposed with the Trinity's austere depiction are cherubim bathed in radiant red light, possibly influenced by stained glass windows that Girardin also designed in Lyon. God the Father wears a liturgical vestment, a sumptuous and bejeweled cope, or cape, fastened below the neck, typically worn by clergy for processional occasions. It is made of opulent crimson velvet with gold thread forming a large pomegranate pattern. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review| 1960.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 10 (1960). page number: cat. no. 59 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142422 Francis, Henry S. “The Holy Trinity.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48, no. 4 (1961). page number: pp. 59-62 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142446 Châtelet, Albert, and Jacques Thuillier. French Painting: From Fouquet to Poussin. Geneva: Skira, 1963. page number: p. 55 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. 73 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n97 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. 73 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n97 Pearman, Sara Jane. The Iconographic Development of the Cruciform Throne of Grace from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century. Ann Arbor, Mich: University Microfilms International, 1974. page number: pp. 45-55, no. 261, fig. 5 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings Before 1500. Cleveland: The Museum, 1974. . page number: pp. 18-20, no. 7 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. 84 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n104 Châtelet, Albert, Master of Moulins, and J. R. J. van Asperen de Boer. Jean Prévost, le Maître de Moulins. [Paris]: Gallimard, 2001. page number: Fig. 12, p. 33 url: Mackie, Louise W. , "Old Cloth in New Light", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 43 no. 08, October 2003 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8-9 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2003-08/page/n7 Sims, Lowery Stokes. The persistence of geometry: form, content, and culture in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. page number: p. 116, color repr. p. 41, no. 21 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.79/1960.79_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.79/1960.79_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.79/1960.79_full.tif