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DESCRIPTION: 14 SLUTER, Claus Well of Moses 1395-1406 Stone, height: 183 cm Musée Archéologique, Dijon Sluter executed a large fountain (Well of Moses) in the Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse de Champmol). The monastery was intended to be the burying place of the Prince of Burgundy, Philip the Bold and his family. The monastery was destroyed during the French revolution, but the hexagonal base with the figures of the six prophets who had forseen the death of Christ on the Cross (Moses, David, Jeremiah, Zachariah, Daniel and Isaiah) survived. ....Web Gallery Of Art