Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)
Inv. 2536
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Destrée 1902 and Brussels 1964: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy on saint John's tunic.
Reverse
Reverse divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular. This indicates that this panel originally was part of a set of writing tablets. Traces of a dark blue (?) pigment.
Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel which has caused it to crack.
Provenance
Bequest from M. Ed. de Biefve in 1882.
Bibliography
J. Destrée, Catalogue des ivoires, des objets en nacre en os gravé et en cire peinte (Brussels, 1902), no. 22 (4093).
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 284.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].
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