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Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts

CA T 328

Ivory

Height: 182mm
Width: 129mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ walking in the Virgin's lap; Christ in long robe; belt; brooch; bench.


Koechlin Number: 0676

Gleize 1883: 13th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Grodecki 1947: France, c. 1340-1350.
Paris 1950: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Tardy 1966: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Paris 1981: France (?), last third of the 14th century.
Georgel 1985: Germany (?), c. 1400.
Maurice 1983 and Museum's opinion 2011: France (?), late 14th century.


Attribution
Forerunner of the Atelier of the Kremsmünster Diptych (Gaborit-Chopin 1981)

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy and gilding: gold (hair); red (inside the Virgin's veil); blue (Virgin's cloak).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: crown; head of Christ (replaced); object in the Virgin's left hand (flower?). Left foot of the Virgin partly broken.

Provenance
Collection of Anthelme and Edma Trimolet: donated by them to the Museum in 1878.

Bibliography
E. Gleize, Catalogue descriptif des objets d'art formant le musée Anthelme et Edma Trimolet (Dijon, 1883), no. 328.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 235, 242, 246; II, no. 676; III, pl. CX.
F. Marion, Les Arts mineurs au musée de Dijon (Dijon, 1934), p. 41.
L. Grodecki, Ivoires français (Paris, 1947), p. 99.
La Vierge dans l'art français, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Petit-Palais, 1950, no. 248.
O. Beigbeder, Ivory (New York, 1965), fig. 36.
Tardy, Les Ivoires (Paris, 1966), pp. 41, 63.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 164.
B. Maurice, Quelques recherches sur les ivoires du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, unpublished Mémoire de maîtrise de l'Université de Dijon, 1983, no. 21.
P. Georgel, Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon (Dijon, 1985), no. 224, p. 239 (with ill.).
C. Ferment, Les Statuettes d'ivoire en Europe du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle (Paris, 2000), p. 167, fig. X.5.


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© Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon. Photography: François Jay.

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