Observations on Corbeil
1973; College Art Association; Volume: 55; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00043079.1973.10790707
ISSN1559-6478
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
ResumoThe church of Notre-Dame of Corbeil was demolished between 1819 and 1823 following damages sustained in the French Revolution and the building's ultimate abandonment. Some fragments of sculpture and building materials were, however, purchased by the Count of Gontant-Biron and set up as a kind of Gothic ruin on his domain at Montgermont, near Ponthierry (S.-et-M.). These fragments have been summarily described, most recently by F. Salet,1 A. Lapeyre,2 and W. Sauerländer.3 They include substantial components of the imposing west portal of the church. With the help of the description made by Raymond in 18184 and a number of drawings by J.-B. Jorand5 antedating the destruction, it is thus possible to reconstitute the original design, at least in its principal lines. The upper zone of the doorway was occupied by a representation of the Last Judgment. Christ enthroned as judge appeared at the center of the tympanum, flanked by a pair of angels bearing the instruments of the Passion and by two additional figures which have been tentatively identified as the Virgin and St. John. The lower register of the relief showed the dead rising from their tombs at the call of two trumpeting angels, apparently located under the feet of Christ. Standing (?) apostles with heads set in a running arcade were seen on the lintel. The composition was framed by triple archivolts exhibiting the torments of the damned (left) and the rewards of the just (right). Each of the two jambs below housed three statue-columns. Two of these have survived in the well-known but unfortunately over-restored Solomon and the Queen of Sheba in the Louvre.6
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