2-751-316 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Ceiling decoration in the Chapel of Saint-Julien, Le Petit-Quevilly, Normandy, France, (1928). '1st Half of 13th Century...Painted ceiling in the choir of the Church at Petit Quevilly...The Flight from Egypt...The influence of stained glass cannot be doubted. It is noticeable in the medallion with blue background, in the colours of the costume and in the rich plant ornament'. After P. Gelis-Didot et H. Laffillee. Plate LXII , fig 134, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]