Inv. 71.491
Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; crown.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: French (Lorraine?), 1340-1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy, especially along the hem of the Virgin's cloak, the back of the Virgin's mantle and bench. Painted foliated pattern on Virgin's mantle.
Reverse
Carved in the round. Two painted lancet windows. Painted foliated pattern on Virgin's mantle.
Object Condition
Missing: object held by the Virgin (flower is a replacement).
Provenance
Lucien Cottreau collection, Paris (in 1900): his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 28-29 April 1910, lot 30. Bought by Henry Walters before 1931 from Henri Daguerre; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 143 (Cottreau collection).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 243; II, no. 677.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 272.
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