beautiful windows painted in the Carthusian monastery". The Benedictine monk Philippe-André Grandidier admired "the beautiful and fresh glass paintings with which the cloister is decorated all around the cells". Finally, in 1771, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who only mentioned this one monument on his trip to Alsace, briefly recalled that "in the cloister of the abbey [sic] of Molsheim, we admired the stained glass windows painted in colour". The revolutionaries, despite their desire to destroy it, were not indifferent to the quality of the stained glass. Joseph Klein suggested placing an advertisement in The London Gazette, stating that "English connoisseurs" had estimated the entire collection at one hundred thousand pounds. In 1790, when the looting had already begun, 95 of the 114 stained glass windows counted by Silbermann were still in the cloister; the windows were then dismantled and transported to Strasbourg. On February 15, 1796, the curator of art monuments for the Bas-Rhin, Léopold Keil, counted 89 panels. A new transfer to the city's library, then located in the former Dominican church (now the Temple Neuf), took place in 1800, but only 83 stained glass windows were recorded. In 1842, the historian Charles Schmidt mentions these windows in his Notice sur la ville de Strasbourg, and attributes them to Lorentz Linck, as well as to "Léonard" (and not Barthélémy). For him, the main pictorial inspiration for the glass masters was to be found in Maarten de Vos. During the 1859 archaeological congress, the 77 surviving stained glass windows were exhibited in fourteen displays by Pierre Rielle de Schauenbourg. Ferdinand Charles Léon de Lasteyrie reproduced two panels in 1853, in his work Note sur les vitraux d'Alsace. In retrospect, he states that "the most admirable collection of stained glass windows of this kind that I have ever seen was that of the former abbey of Molsheim [...] It was an incomparable collection [...] The stained glass windows of Molsheim bore the characteristics of Swiss art to the highest degree". On the night of August 24-25, 1870, during the siege of Strasbourg, the municipal library of Strasbourg burned down. All the stained glass windows in the library were destroyed; only seven were saved in their original state, one other, the Crucifixion, having been restored, and two others being known from watercolour engravings by Lasteyrie. The monastic cells Molsheim Charterhouse was of an intermediate size, with nineteen cells, which is more than