Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; tender gesture of Christ touching with his right hand the Virgin's chin; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand.
Koechlin 1924 and Paris 1950: French, end of the 13th century.
Suckale 1971: c. 1250
Gaborit-Chopin 1978 and Cologne-Paris 1995-1996: Paris, c. 1260.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: right hand of the Virgin (later replacement).
Repair visible on the underside. Hole in the base.
Provenance
Said to have come from the Dominican convent of Montargis (France, Loiret). Bequeathed to the Société archéologique by Abbé Bouloy in 1877.
Bibliography
Exposition rétrospective de Beaux-Arts, Orléans, 1876, no. 1735, pl. II.
L. Dumuys, in Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de France 177 (1904), no. 177, p. 143.
L. Gonse, Les Chefs-d'oeuvre des musées de France: sculpture, dessins, objets d'art (Paris, 1904), p. 301.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 100; II, no. 73; III, pl. XXVI.
La Vierge dans l'art français, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Petit Palais, 1950, no. 240.
J. Dillenberger, Style and Content in Christian Art from the Catacombs to the Chapel Designed by Matisse at Vence (New York, 1965), p. 22.
Tardy, Les Ivoires (Paris, 1966), ill.
L'Europe gothique, XIIe-XIVe siècle, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1968, no. 355.
R. Suckale, Studien zu Stilbildung und Stilwandel der Madonnenstatuen der Ile-de-France zwischen 1230 und 1300 (Munich, 1971).
R. H. Randall, 'A Monumental Ivory', in Gatherings in Honour of Dorothy Miner, ed. by U.E. McCracken, L.M.C. Randall and R.H. Randall, Jr (Baltimore, 1974), pp. 282-300.
M. Seidel, 'Die Elfenbeinmadonna im Domschatz zu Pisa', in Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institut in Florenz, 16 (1972), pp. 1-50 (p. 43).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Âge (Freiburg, 1978), no. and fig. 201, 202.
C. Little, 'Ivoires et art gothique', in Revue de l'art 46 (1979), pp. 58-67.
Le Trésor de Saint-Denis, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1991, p. 232, fig. 3.
Un Trésor gothique: la châsse de Nivelles, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen museum and Paris, MNMA-Cluny, 1995-1996, no. 37 (G. Sporbeck).
E. Moinet and I. Klinka-Ballesteros, Le Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans (Paris, 1996), p. 122, no. 143
S. Guérin, 'An ivory Virgin at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, in a Gothic sculptor's oeuvre', in The Burlington Magazine 1311, Vol. CLIV (June 2012), pp. 394-402 (p. 394).
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