Organ Gallery Front
1540-1570 (made)
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Portion of the front of an organ gallery. It is divided into three compartments by two pilasters and surmounted by a cornice, the central part of which is convex. Each compartment is carved with a round-headed arch, and beneath them are the following subjects, beginning on the left:
1. Salome with the youthful St James and St John the Evangelist
2. A standing female figure holding an open book, and four children in front of her holding emblems
3. St Anne teaching the Virgin to read; the spandrels are filled in leaf ornament, and the capitals of the pilasters are carved with acanthus leaves
1. Salome with the youthful St James and St John the Evangelist
2. A standing female figure holding an open book, and four children in front of her holding emblems
3. St Anne teaching the Virgin to read; the spandrels are filled in leaf ornament, and the capitals of the pilasters are carved with acanthus leaves
Object details
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| Brief description | Organ gallery front (section); French, 1500-1550. Ex Peyre Collection. |
| Physical description | Portion of the front of an organ gallery. It is divided into three compartments by two pilasters and surmounted by a cornice, the central part of which is convex. Each compartment is carved with a round-headed arch, and beneath them are the following subjects, beginning on the left: 1. Salome with the youthful St James and St John the Evangelist 2. A standing female figure holding an open book, and four children in front of her holding emblems 3. St Anne teaching the Virgin to read; the spandrels are filled in leaf ornament, and the capitals of the pilasters are carved with acanthus leaves |
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| Object history | Purchased for £30: 'wormeaten and split'. This panel was formerly in the collection of Emile Peyre (1824-1904), a notable Parisian collector of French medieval and renaissance artefacts. In 1895 the South Kensington Museum (renamed the V&A in 1900), bought over 300 pieces of furniture and woodwork from him, (as well as sculpture and metalwork), at a cost of £11,878. 16s. 9d. |
| Historical context | Comparable woodwork Oak boiserie and panels from the church of Saint Etienne, Beauvais c1560, in Laurence Fligny: Le Mobilier en Picardie. (Picardie, 1990), nos. 174 a-e, p140-1) |
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| Accession number | 684-1895 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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