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Compiègne, Musée Antoine Vivenel

L.330

Ivory

Height: 200mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; crown.


Koechlin Number: 0841

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Ferment 2000: Germany, 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003: Germany, late 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Germany (Rhineland), end of the 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: Lower Rhenish (?), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Atelier of the Kremsmünster Diptych (Koechlin 1924)

Reverse
Carved in the round. The bottom is scored and pierced with a hole.

Object Condition
Missing: parts of the Virgin's crown. Cracked.

Provenance
Collection of Antoine Vivenel (b. 1799, d. 1862), Paris (from the 2nd quarter of the 19th century); made into a museum in 1841; given to the town of Compiègne in 1843.

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 85.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 301, II, no. 841, III, pl. CLI.
Tardy, Les Ivoires (Paris, 1972), pl. 63
G. Jàszai, 'Nordfranzösich oder mittelrheinisch? Zur Elfenbein-Madonna der Kirche des ehemaligen Augustinerinnenklosters in Langenhorst', in Westfalen: Hefte für Kunst, Geschichte u. Volkskunde 57 (1979), issue 1 - 4, pp. 16-23 (p. 20, fig. 6).
P. Beguerie, 'La Vierge à l'Enfant de l'Atelier du Diptyque de Kremsmünster', in Société Schongauer, Bulletin 1987-1992 (1993), pp. 91-97 (p. 91, fig. 6)
C. Ferment, Les Statuettes d'ivoire en Europe du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle (Paris, 2000), p. 21, figs. II. 1, 166, X.3.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), fig. 216a.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 11.


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© Musée Antoine Vivenel, Compiègne. Photography: Benoît Roland.

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