Quatrefoil tracery light
From the collegiate church of Romont (former chapel of St. John the Baptist), around 1340 – 1350
Artist of the Upper Rhine ( ?)
Lead came, pot-metal stained glass, grisaille, 53.5 x 53.5 cm
Vitromusée Romont, on loan from the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Fribourg, VMR 206
This stained glass window comes from the former chapel of St John the Baptist in the collegiate church of Romont, where it was grouped with two figurative panels depicting St Sylvester and St John the Evangelist (the originals are now on display in the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Fribourg), as well as a trefoil window exhibited opposite the entrance door of the museum. This ensemble probably dates from the late 1340s, since the chapel was built between 1344 and 1348 on the initiative of a wealthy bourgeois patron from Romont.
Each point of the quatrefoil is decorated with three-pronged white oak leaves, attached to yellow-brown stems, which stand out against a red background and surround a central blue rosette. The work bears a stylistic resemblance to stained glass from the Upper and Lower Rhine regions, in particular certain windows in Strasbourg Cathedral. Restoration by the workshop Atelier Kirsch in Fribourg is attested after the Second World War.