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GE_23.17: Nativité, adoration des bergers
(GE_Geneve_AmericanEmmanuel_23.17)

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Title

Nativité, adoration des bergers

Type of Object
Artist / Producer
Studio
Dating
1993-1998
Dimensions
Env. 70 x 70 cm
Location
Place
Salle du Chapitre, 1er étage, s I
Inventory

Iconography

Description

A gauche, deux bergers entourés de moutons montrent l’étoile de Bethléem brillant au-dessus d’anges chantant. A droite, les mages avec deux chameaux font de même. Au centre, Marie assise aux côtés de Joseph, tient l’Enfant Jésus dans ses bras. A leur droite, l’âne et le boeuf. En bas, des coquelicots et des chardons.

Iconclass Code
25G4(THISTLE) · plants and herbs: thistle
25G41(POPPY) · flowers: poppy
73B13 · Mary, Joseph and the new-born Christ (Nativity)
73B14 · annunciation of Christ's birth to the shepherds (and/or shepherdesses) at night; a host of singing angels in the air
73B51 · the three Wise Men see a star and are astonished by its magnitude
Iconclass Keywords
aconite · air (in the) · angel · annunciation · Balthasar · barley · bible · birth · Caspar · Christ · Christ-child · earth · flower · group · herb · infancy · Joseph (St.) · king · large · lotus · Luke 02 · Mary (Virgin) · Matthew 02 · Melchior · mint-plant · Nativity · nature · New Testament · night · plant · pointing · poppy · shepherd · shepherdess · star · thistle · three · Wise Men · world
Inscription

IN MEMORIAM / MARYLIN & HENRI PROBST / 1930-1992 // 1919-2009 (lobe inférieur)

Signature

BÉGUIN / 1998 (sur la pointe du lobe inférieur) // BEGUIN-VITRAUX/STÉ-CROIX 1993 (sur la bordure rouge du lobe inférieur)

Technique / State

Technique

Vitrail au plomb, grisaille

History

Dating
1993-1998
Period
1993 – 1998

Bibliography and Sources

Literature

Gérald Carpenter, The American Church in Geneva : a century of service, 1873-1973, Centennial Committe of Emmanuel Church, Geneva, 1973, p. 17-50

Armand Brulhart et Erica Deuber-Pauli, “Pâquis, Sécheron”, in Ville et canton de Genève, coll. “Arts et monuments”, SHAS, Berne, (1ère éd. 1985) 1993, p. 198

Nicole Quellet-Soguel (dir.), Clement Heaton : 1861-1940, Londres Neuchâtel New York, Attinger, Hauterive, 1996, pp. 46-47

Magalie Kocher, Typologie des vitraux des églises anglicanes de l’arc lémanique, mémoire de licence polycopié, Université de Lausanne, faculté des lettres, Lausanne, 2001, pp. 34-39

Magalie Kocher, Inventaire des vitraux des églises anglicanes de l’arc lémanique, mémoire de licence polycopié, Université de Lausanne, faculté des lettres, Lausanne, 2001, pp. 1-14

Image Information

Name of Image
GE_Geneve_AmericanEmmanuel_23.17
Credits
© APAS (Association pour la Promotion de l'Art Sacré), Genève – photographe : Cyrille Girardet, Veyrier
Date
2011
Copyright
© Artiste

Inventory

Reference Number
GE_23.17
Author and Date of Entry
Valérie Sauterel 2014