Panel 1: Christ in glory in a mandorla; Christ trampling a winged dragon (monster) with knotted tail; four angels holding the mandorla; throne decorated with rounded trefoils.
Foliated border.
Panel 2: Seated Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); Virgin holding a fruit in her right hand; Virgin seated frontally; Christ seated frontally; two angels swinging censers, standing on the sides of the bench; hybrid creature.
Museum's opinion 2012: 19th century (following the unpublished opinion of Elisabeth Antoine, curator at the Louvre).
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Labels with inscriptions on the back of the green velvet mounts: '262' (back of the Christ in glory mount); '263' (back of the Virgin mount).
Object Condition
Numerous holes for attachment to a background.
Missing (panel 1): two fingers on the right hand of Christ.
Missing (panel 2): right hand of the left angel and censer; left hand of the right angel and part of the censer.
Border broken in places.
Comments
These two panels seem to have been carved by the same hand as two other openwork panels in the same collection (MJAP-OA-903). Judging from the labels on the reverse, they also probably share the same provenance, prior to entering the Jacquemart-André collection.
Provenance
Unknown provenance.
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