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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Metropolitan Museum... > Objets d'Art > Moyen-Age 2 > Mourner
Mourner

Date : between 1416 and 1450

Material : Alabaster
Acquisition : Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan (1917)
Moyen-Age
Item 6 on 13
Objets d'Art
Sculpture (Statuette)

Vitrine : V02

Area related
Bourges (France)
Site related :
Jean de Liège, Louvre Museum



Description   

These naturalistic figures, each shown in different poses, were once among forty statuettes that decorated the marble tomb effigy of John, Duke of Berry. They represent the duke's chaplains and court officers in funeral procession. The tomb remained unfinished until Charles VII had it completed.
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Item(s) related   
Louvre Museum :
Gisants gothiques
Pleurant
Statuette
Jean de Brecquessent et Jean Pépin de Huy
from 1311 to 1315
Jean de Liège
Mourner
Statuette
Valois directs
Etienne Bobillet et Paul Mosselmann
from 1416 to 1450
Mourner
Statuette
Valois directs
Paul Mosselmann et Etienne Bobillet
approx. from 1416 to 1450
Mourner
Statuette
Valois directs
Anonyme
approx. from 1450 to 1475
Philippe Pot
Pleurant adossé à une colonne et portant un écu armorié
Statue
Anonyme
approx. from 1500 to 1530

 
French
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