Swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist (? bearded); scalloped haloes (part of a Crucifixion scene).
Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th century.
Guide 1957: Italian, 16th-century style.
Steyaert 1994: Utrecht (?), c. 1420-1430.
Museum's opinion 2011: Utrecht, early 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: green (upper part of the panel; ground); gold (haloes, especially that of saint Mary Magdalene).
Reverse
Chamfered along the vertical edges. Slightly curved. Edges thinner. Crosshatched.
1912 inventory label. 1950s inventory label.
Provenance
Collection of Victor Choquet: his bequest to the Museum in the 1890s.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 345; II, no. 971.
Musée de Lille : Guide de la Section des Objets d'art (Paris, 1957), p. 19.
J. W. Steyaert, Late Gothic Sculpture: The Burgundian Netherlands, exhibition catalogue, Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1994, no. 95.
P. Williamson, 'Ghent. Late Gothic Sculpture', exhibition review, in Burlington Magazine CXXXVI (1994), pp. 861-862, fig. 85.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), p. 508.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 173.
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