pleurant (mourner) from the tomb of the King of Aragon 1417, Pere Oller

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Pere Oller, pleurant (mourner) from the tomb of the King of Aragon 1417
Pere Oller, pleurant (mourner) from the tomb of the King of Aragon 1417
Pere Oller
pleurant (mourner) from the tomb of the King of Aragon 1417
early 1400s
pleurant (mourner) from the tomb of the King of Aragon 1417, early 1400s
Where object was made: Catalonia, Crown of Aragaon (present-day Spain)
Material/technique: alabaster
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 23.5 x 14.9 x 6.5 cm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 9 1/4 x 5 7/8 x 2 9/16 in
Credit line: Gift of Leopold Blumka
Accession number: 1957.0113
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Corpus," Apr-2012, Kris Ercums Mourner figures were popular components of European funerary monuments from the early Christian period, and their inclusion experienced resurgence in the 13th-century French court of Louis IX (St. Louis). By the 14th and 15th centuries, they were common additions to sumptuous tombs throughout Western Europe. Called Pleurants, French for mourners or weepers, these sculptures often represented the loved ones of the deceased or the members of a funeral procession.