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Column Shaft

Date:: late 13th–early 14th century
Geography:: Made in Pyrénées-Aquintaine, France
Culture:: French
Medium:: Marble
Dimensions:: H.: 62 in. (157.5 cm) Circum.: 20 3/8 in
Classification:: Sculpture
Credit Line:: The Cloisters Collection, 1925
Accession Number:: 25.120.797

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 012

Provenance

From the Cistercian abbey at Bonnefont-en-Comminges and other nearby monasteries.

George Grey Barnard American, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania 1863–1938 New York , New York (until 1925)
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What
Sculpture (24,350)

Marble (2,128)
Where
Europe (148,586)

France (52,276)

Burgundy (717)
When
A.D. 1000-1400 (7,084)
In the Museum
The Cloisters (2,300)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
France, 1000–1400 A.D.

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