Blindfolded figure of Synagogue (Synagoga) holding the tables of the Law (part of a Deposition scene).
Museum's opinion 2013: Paris, c. 1270-1280.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: spear in Synagoga's right hand.
Comments
This recently acquired statuette is part of a Deposition group which includes Christ being taken down from the cross by Joseph of Arimathea and the Virgin holding his hand, with Ecclesia standing by (OA 3935) and statuettes of saint John the Evangelist (OA 12517; also recently acquired) and of a kneeling figure holding a scroll (possibly Nicodemus; OA 9443). They would originally have been contained in an architectural framework (see Gaborit-Chopin 2003, p. 302 and fig. 103a).
Provenance
Collection of Paul Corbin (b. 1862, d. 1948): donated to the Société des Amis du Louvre in 2013.
Bibliography
E. Antoine, 'Les deux statuettes qui manquaient à la Descente de Croix', in Grande Galerie. Le journal du Louvre', 23 (March-April-May 2013), pp. 6-8.
E. Antoine König and J. Levy-Hinstin, La Descente de Croix (Paris, 2013).
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