{"id":2037,"date":"2024-01-24T15:58:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2024-01-24T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T07:58:08","slug":"three-u-s-museums-accused-of-hiding-stolen-stain-glass-windows-from-rouen-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/three-u-s-museums-accused-of-hiding-stolen-stain-glass-windows-from-rouen-cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"Three U.S. Museums Accused of Hiding Stolen Stain Glass Windows from Rouen Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">A complaint was filed by the Parisian lumi\u00e8re sur le patrimoine association against three American museums, including the\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_metropolitan-museum-of-art\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"metropolitan-museum-of-art\">Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>, for hiding the theft of stain glass windows from the\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_rouen-cathedral\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"rouen-cathedral\">Rouen Cathedral<\/a>\u00a0in December 2023,\u00a0<em>Ouest-France<\/em>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">According to written testimony, archaeologist and art historian Jean Lafond (who died in 1975) had inventoried a series of stain glass windows at the Rouen Cathedral in 1911 that, it was later discovered in 1931, were no longer there. Five of these six windows were allegedly sold on the Parisian art market before anyone learned of their disappearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The window panels would have depicted the \u201cSeven Sleepers of Ephesus\u201d, a famous\u00a0legend in which Christian soldiers fell asleep in a cave near Ephesus and wake up\u00a0nearly 200 years later, with the sixth window coming from one of the chapels in the nave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The pieces were reportedly purchased by American collectors before they landed in the institutional collections of the\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_glencairn-museum\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" data-tag=\"glencairn-museum\">Glencairn Museum<\/a>\u00a0in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, the\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_worcester-museum\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" data-tag=\"worcester-museum\">Worcester Museum<\/a>\u00a0in Massachusetts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The president of the association Philippe Machicote is fighting to have these artworks returned to the state. In September 2023, Machicote tried to hold Sotheby\u2019s accountable for having supposedly sold two of stain glass windows from Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1862, but the Paris prosecutor\u2019s office did not recognize the appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The prosecutor\u2019s office in Rouen has two months remaining to make a decision on the Rouen Cathedral\u2019s stain glass windows.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A complaint was filed by the Parisian lumi\u00e8re sur le patrimoine association against three American museums, including the\u00a0Metropolitan Museum of Art, for hiding the theft of stain glass windows from the\u00a0Rouen Cathedral\u00a0in December 2023,\u00a0Ouest-France\u00a0reports. 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