Notre Dame de Laòn

 

John Taylor Arms

  1887 - 1953 (biography)

1929  

etching 

14 1/8 x 9 1/2" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

100 

pencil dated 1929 after the signature; pencil inscribed "Third State" in lower left; plate inscribed ARMS, 1919 in lower right 

Fletcher 219'; French Church series #26; Arms 221; LOC 225 

gray-blue laid 

iii/iii 

artist 

24584 

$750.00 

Laon, located in the Hauts-de-France in northern France, was the medieval capital of the Carolingian kings of France, beginning with Louis IV. Hugh Capet, who became king in 987, seized the town with the connivance of the local bishop and moved the capital to Paris. Laon was developed into a walled city in the second part of the 12th century and the cathedral was built in the 12th and 13th centuries. The cathedral’s stained glass dates mostly from the 13th century. The cathedral of Laon is one of the most important and stylistically unified examples of early Gothic architecture.