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However, art historian Jean Lafond (1888 - 1975) described seeing it in 1914 or 1916 in a lancet window devoted to the Life of St Stephen in one of the radiating chapels of the ambulatory of Coutances Cathedral in Normandy, a provenance that fits from both a stylistic and an iconographic point of view.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"St Stephen before the High Priest, panel of clear, coloured and flashed glass with painted details, from the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Coutances (Normandy), France, ca. 1230-40.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Demotte, Lucien. <i>Catalogue of an Exhibition of Stained Glass from the XIth to the XVIIIth Centuries. Exhibition and Sale catalogue 6 March - 20 April 1929;</i> New York: Demotte Inc, 1929, cat. no. 19. 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