Inv. 2111
Denial of saint Peter.
Vöge 1900; Volbach 1923: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Darmstadt and Munich 1999: beginning of the 19th century.
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Reverse
Flat with crosshatchings. Hole.
Object Condition
Missing: two fingers.
Comments
Probably part of the same group as Inv. 126 and Inv. 2112, also in Berlin. See related works.
Provenance
Collection of the Baron de Theïs (Alexandre-Etienne-Guillaume Theïs (b. 1765, d. 1842) and Baronne de Theïs (from at least 1867). Collection of Frédéric Spitzer (b. 1815, d. 1890), Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 109; given by A. Beit to the Museum in 1893.
Bibliography
Exposition universelle, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1867, no. 1761a.
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 74 (E. Molinier).
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 118.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 43, pl. 49.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (pp. 113-114, fig. 2).
Meisterwerke aus Elfenbein der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, exhibition catalogue, Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum and Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 1999, pp. 14-15, fig. 5.
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