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An English Alabaster at Muret, Haute-Garonne

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Joan Evans
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In 1957 I published a note in the Antiquaries Journal on a small alabaster sculpture of the Virgin and St. Anne, which I considered to be of English origin, from Montpezat-de-Quercy, Tarn-et-Garonne, and noted that its subject was also represented on an English alabaster in the Hildburgh collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum that was believed to come from Bruniquel, also in Languedoc. The importation from England of alabaster sculptures of St. Anne teaching the Virgin to read is confirmed by yet another such group in the parish church of Saint-Jacques at Muret, Haute-Garonne. Its existence was revealed to me by M. Mathieu Meras, Directeur des Services d'Archives and Keeper of Antiquities at Montauban. He included it in an exhibition of “Tresors d'Art Gothique en Languedoc’ held at the Musée Ingres, Montauban, from June to September 1961.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , September 1963 , pp. 284 - 285
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1963

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References

page 284 note 1 Jan.-Apr. 1957, xxxvii, nos. 1–2, p. 73.

page 284 note 2 Catalogue no. 41.

page 284 note 3 M. Méras confirms my impression that the cult of St. Anne was widespread in Languedoc, and tells me that the church of Ginestas, Aude, has a fifteenth-century wooden statue of the saint with the Virgin and Child which he considers to be certainly of Germanic origin.

page 284 note 4 Hope, W. St. John, ‘On the early working of Alabaster in England’, Arch. Journ. lxi (1904), p. 224Google Scholar.

page 284 note 5 Testamenta Vetusta, i, 146. A late example of the subject survives at Kersey Church.

page 284 note 6 Victoria and Albert Museum, A 52–1946.

page 284 note 7 See Museums Journal, lxi, no. 4, Mar. 1962, cover.

page 285 note 1 M. Méras, familiar with the maturer styles of France, sets it at the beginning of the century.

page 285 note 2 British Museum, Arundel MS. 83, fol. 124; Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts (1908), iii, pi. xxiii.

page 285 note 3 Mrs. Newton recalls the St. Anne with the Virgin and Child by Francesco Traini, now at Princeton; Paragone (1962) (147), pi. 38.