Crucifixion with the Virgin, Holy Women, saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
London 1967: French, mid-14th century.
Lowden 2013: North French, c. 1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two missing hinges.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (red on the frame) and gilding (clothes and hair).
Provenance
Thomas Gambier Parry, Highnam Court (Gloucestershire)(d. 1888): bought before 1860; Sir Hubert Parry (d. 1918), his eldest son (from 1888); Ernest Gambier-Parry (d. 1936), half-brother of Hubert (from 1918); Mark Gambier-Parry (d. 1966), youngest son of Ernest (from 1936); bequeathed to the Courtauld Institute Galleries in 1966.
Bibliography
National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds, exhibition catalogue, Leeds, 1868, no. 688.
The Gambier-Parry Collection. Provisional Catalogue (London, 1967), no. 15.
General Catalogue of the Courtauld Institute Galleries (1979), no. 15.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), no. 10, pp. 76-77.
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