Caption:
King Clothar II and an Attendant, ca. 1500–1525, French, Oak, painted, Overall: 21 1/2 x 7 5/8 x 5 in. (54.6 x 19.4 x 12.7 cm), Sculpture-Wood, This elegant late Gothic relief of Clothar II (d. 629), Merovingian king of the Franks, is part of a scene from a dismantled retable, still in the church of Recloses, in which he receives two gold saddles from the reknowned goldsmith Saint EIoi, or Eligius