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Inside left wing is inscription: "le xxviii jour de mars / lan mil cccc lx + xv jehan barbet dit de lion fist cest angelot".
Cast of an original: Angel, 1475 (Bronze, H.1.185m.), Frick Collection (1943.2.82), New York City, by Jean Barbet. See Frick Colleciton website for proveneance and detailed image: http://collections.frick.org/CUS.18.zoomobject._355$4230*321956 It was a weather vein at Chateau de Lude. Exhib. Universal Exhib, Paris, 1867. Purchased 1905 by Pierrepoint Morgan. At PM Library, in NY until 1944. Purchased by Frick, 1943. Biebel, A.B. (1950). poss. From Sainte-Chapelle in Paris - check.
There is a another cast on display in the Musée de sculpture comparée au Palais du Trocadéro (moulages), Paris. In March 1912 Sir Robert Lorimer and Mr Black, governors of ECA, went to Paris and Brussels to purchase casts. In July 1912 the Trocadero workshop in Paris was paid 478 francs for casts ordered from them. It seems likely that the cast was purchased at the same time as 021. |
