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Statuette; also known as Chalandon Angel (Ange Chalandon) (Front)

Statuette; also known as Chalandon Angel (Ange Chalandon) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 7507

Ivory

Height: 305mm
Width: 180mm
Depth: 65mm

Standing angel (part of an Annunciation scene).
Traces of painted inscription around the base: 'AVE...'.


Koechlin Number: 0020

Koechlin 1924: France, 3rd quarter of the 13th century.
Grodecki 1947: before 1275.
Little 1979: Reims, c. 1230-1240.
Williamson 1997: Paris, c. 1250-1260.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, c. 1280-1300.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (3 layers); original is golden orphreys, blue on coat (painted directly onto the ivory), and perhaps also red on the interior of the robe and gilding in the hair. See report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 1996, and B. Guineau, 'Études des couleurs dans la polychromie des ivoires médiévaux', in Bulletin de la Société nationale de l'art français, 1996, pp. 188-210.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.
Right hand and forearm remade, as well as heels (though feet are not a later addition, as claimed by Ganay 1913 and Koechlin 1924).
Missing: scroll, wings (holes for wings still visible at shoulders).
Hole under base.

Comments
It has long been assumed that this angel formed a group with the Garnier Virgin (Musée du Louvre, OA 7007). However, as Aubert 1922 noted, important differences between the statuettes suggest they were made by different craftsmen at different times, and could therefore have only been brought together later (see Gaborit-Chopin 2003).

Provenance
Laforge collection. Albin Chalandon collection, Lyon, (c. 1870-1875?); Georges Chalandon collection, Lyon (at least from 1913); gift of G. Chalandon to the Musée du Louvre, 1922, in memory of his nephew, Ferdinand Chalandon.

Bibliography
A. Darcel, L'Exposition rétrospective de Lyon', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XVI, 1877, p. 181.
Exposition de Lyon, exhibition catalogue, Lyon, 1877, no. 806.
J.-B. Giraud, Recueil descriptif et raisonné des principaux objets d'art ayant figuré à l'exposition rétrospective de Lyon, 1877 (Lyon, 1878), pl. V.
E. Molinier, Les Arts appliqués à l'industrie, I, Ivoires (Paris, 1896), engraving.
G. Migeon, 'L'exposition rétrospective de l'art français', in Revue de l'art ancien et moderne, VII, 1900, pp. 457-458 (links to the 'Vierge Garnier').
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 59 (ill.).
E. Molinier, F. Marcou, L'Exposition rétrospective de l'Art français des origines à 1900 (Paris, 1900), p. 7 and ill. (héliogravure).
M. G. Lafenestre, Exposition des primitifs français, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Palais du Louvre and Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris, 1904), no. 292.
G. Migeon, 'La collection de M. G. Chalandon', in Les Arts, 42 (June 1905), p. 22.
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, organisée par la marquise de Ganay chez Mr Jacques Seligmann, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Hôtel de Sagan, 1913, no. 107, pl. XL.
O. Pelka, Elfenbein (Berlin, 1920), fig. 114.
M. Aubert, 'L'ange de la collection Chalandon au musée du Louvre', in Revue de l'art ancien et moderne, XLI (1922), pp. pp. 387-390, fig. (calls into question link with the 'Vierge Garnier').
G. Migeon, Musée du Louvre. L'Orient musulman (Paris, 1922), pp. 138-139, pl. (dissociates from the 'Vierge Garnier').
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 61; II, no. 20; III, pl. IX (links with the 'Vierge Garnier').
L. Grodecki, Ivoires français (Paris, 1947), pp. 84-85 (dissociates from the 'Vierge Garnier').
J. Natanson, Gothic Ivories of the 13th and 14th Centuries (London, 1951), pl. 12.
L'Art en Champagne au Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, 1959, no. 98.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), no. and fig. 217, 218 (dissociates from the 'Vierge Garnier').
C. Little, 'Ivoires et art gothique', in Revue de l'art, 46 (1979), pp. 60-61, fig. 6-7.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Les ivoires gothiques français', in Louvre. Trésors du Moyen Âge. Dossier de l'art, no. 16, Dec. 1993-Jan. 1994, p. 37, fig. 5.
B. Guineau, 'Études des couleurs dans la polychromie des ivoires médiévaux', in Bulletin de la société nationale de l'art français (1996), p. 197.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, no. 16.
P. Williamson, 'Gothic Ivories in Detroit and Baltimore', in Apollo (March 1997), p. 48.
L'art au temps des rois maudits: Philippe le Bel et ses fils (1285-1328), exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1998, no. 89.
A. Cascio & J. Levy, 'Les ivoires peints. La polychromie des statuettes d'ivoire', in Coré, 5 (1998), pp. 5-20.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 120.


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