RENAISSANCE GLASS PAINTER, French
(active 1550s)

Virgin and Child

1556
Stained glass window, 75 x 54 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

This fragment of a stained glass window comes from the Sainte-Chapelle of the royal palace of Vincennes. Other elements are held in the Musée National de la Renaissance, Écouen. The stained glass window was executed by the Parisian glazier Nicolas Beaurain after the design of Claude Bauduin. Beaurain also worked for the châteaux of Fontainebleau and Anet.