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Statuette (Front)
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Rome, Museo Francescano

Inv. 1228

Ivory

Height: 160mm

Saint Louis standing; fleur-de-lys.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: forearms.

Provenance
The museum was founded in the 1880s in the Capuchin friary of Marseille by Fr. Louis-Antoine de Porrentruy; the museum moved to Rome in 1905 (via Boncompagni) and reopened only in 1912. In 1927, it was transferred to Assisi, but came back to Rome in 1953 (via Sicilia). It settled in the current location in 1968. This particular piece may come into the collection when it was in Marseille.

Bibliography
P. Gerlach, S. Gieben, M. D'Alatri, Il Museo Francescano (Rome, 1973), p. 81.


Image

© Museo Francescano, Città del Vaticano, Rome.

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