Work of Art Record 16903

Record No

16903

Collection

The Elaine C. Block Database of Misericords

Inventory Number

Sequence: S-1

Location

France, Île-de-France, Essonne, Villabé, Saint-Marcel

Date

ca. 1530

Subject Headings

Adam and Eve, Fall of Man
Serpent, Human-Headed
Adam, in Garden of Eden

Description

Adam and Eve, Fall of Man -- Only nude Adam represented beside Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil around which is wound human-headed serpent (Eve destroyed).

Notes

Provenance: St.-Jean-en-Ile, near Corbeil; St.-Victor, Paris (possibly)

Date: Restoration in 1990

Artist: G. Du Cloux

Sequence: S-1

Citations

BLOCK Elaine, Corpus of medieval misericords, France, Turnhout, 2003, pp 48-49.

KRAUS Dorothy, « A forgotten Relic from the Abbey of Saint-Victor » Gazette des Beaux-Arts 78, 1977, pp. 317-329.

CHATILLON Jean, « Les anciennes stalles de l’abbaye Saint-Victor: iconographie et théologie », Bulletin archéologique du comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Nouvelle série 9, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1976, pp. 100-114.

REGNIER Louis, « Les stalles de l’abbaye de Saint-Victor », Bulletin archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques 2, Paris, 1922, pp. 165-222.

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