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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (United States)
Acquired in 2012 (2012.70.1, .2)

Evangelists of Grandmont: Saint Luke and Saint Mark

Limousin workshop, circa 1220-1230

Copper: repoussé, chased, engraved, scraped and gilt; dark blue glass inset eyes
Mark : 17.4 × 11.2 × 3.1 cm;
Luke : 16.5 × 12.1 × 3.6 cm
Provenance

From the frontal of the high altar of the abbey church at Grandmont near Limoges; Frederic Spitzer’s collection (sale Paris, 1893); Simon Goldschmidt, Paris;  Desmottes’s collection (sale Paris, 1900); Charles Gillot’s collection.