DEC1522 (formerly Inv. K 91F)
Williamson 1987: French (Paris?), 2nd half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two hinges.
Object Condition
Missing: left arm of the crowning angel on the right wing and crown he was holding. Left leaf broken in two pieces which have been glued back together; upper border of the left wing chipped. Small hole in the middle of the top edge of each leaf, perhaps for a closing device.
When it was bought the diptych was mounted in a neo-Gothic wooden frame which has since been removed.
Provenance
Collection of E. Cea Naharro, Pontevedra (in 1919); collection of H. Piel, Wassenaar (said to have been bought in the 1920s from a family in Spain who, in turn, had owned it for 200 years, presumably the Cea family); collection of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (b. 1921, d. 2002), Castagnola-Lugano (bought on 12 October 1971); thence by descent to the present owner.
Bibliography
P. Williamson, Medieval Sculpture and Works of Art. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (London, 1987), no. 25.
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