Three gold-colored winged figures stand side by side with arms upraised against variations of blue glass.　
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The barefoot figures stand in the upper half of the stained glass, and are hand painted with details in the faces and bodies. Each figure has their mouth slightly open, golden hair, and a small star above their heads. The figure on left looks left, the center figure also looks left, and right figure looks right. Their upraised arms intersect at the elbows, palms open. Ribbons of white-aqua and cobalt-blue glass run underneath their feet. A partial sphere with rays of varying lengths, perhaps representing the sun, emerges from the bottom. A band of rectangular yellow glass defines the bottom.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1080.B
People
John La Farge, American (New York, NY 1835 - 1910 Providence, RI)
Title
When the Morning Stars Sang Together and All the Sons of God Shouted for Joy
Other Titles
Former Title: When the Morning Stars Sang Together
Classification
Stained Glass
Work Type
stained glass
Date
c. 1884-1885
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230120

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pot metal, opalescent, and uncolored glass with vitreous paint
Dimensions
87.6 x 61.9 cm (34 1/2 x 24 3/8 in.)
framed: 98.4 x 70.5 x 6.7 cm (38 3/4 x 27 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Commissioned by Judge William G. Peckham, Trenton, NJ, 1885; his estate sale, Trenton, NJ, 1924; purchased at that sale by Scott and Fowles, New York; their sale to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1925.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1080.B
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), p. 57, repr. as fig. 10
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 197-98, cat. no. 151, reproduced in color, p. 198

Subjects and Contexts

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