1533

Angels Holding a Damaged Shield with the Arms of King Francis I, from the Château of Pagny

This relief adorned the façade of the chapel at the château of Pagny. A late-medieval building, the chapel was renovated in Renaissance style during the 1530s as part of successive renovation campaigns undertaken by Philippe Chabot de Brion, admiral of France and governor of Burgundy, and his uncle by marriage Cardinal Claude de Givry. As part of the elaborate decoration of the façade, the royal coat of arms was placed on the left-hand side of the upper register of the portal, just below the canopy with the Virgin and Child, which is also in the museum’s collection (1930-1-85). Philippe Chabot was a childhood friend of King Francis I, and his wife was the king's illegitimate half-sister.