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Statuette (Bottom)

Statuette (Bottom)
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Side

Back

Side

Front

Subject
Religious.

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Compiègne, Musée Antoine Vivenel

L.331

Ivory

Height: 130mm

Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child (Anna Selbdritt); Virgo lactans.


Koechlin Number: 0710

Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
KIK/IRPA database 2010: France, c. 1350.
Museum's opinion 2011: France, mid 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy (19th and early 20th century; analysis has shown that no medieval pigments remain): gold (along the hems), pink-grey (flesh), blue and red (clothes).

Reverse
Carved in the round. The bottom and the back are pierced with holes.

Object Condition
Missing: Christ's right arm and feet; tip of the right foot of saint Anne; fingers on the left hand of the Virgin; head of the Virgin (replaced with a wooden head, probably in the 19th century). Chipped around the base.

Provenance
Collection of Antoine Vivenel (b. 1799, d. 1862), Paris (from the 2nd quarter of the 19th century); made into a museum in 1841; given to the town of Compiègne in 1843.

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 174.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 257, II, no. 710, III, pl. CXVII.
De Madonna in de Kunst, 1954, exhibition catalogue, Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1954, no. tbc
Tardy, Les Ivoires (Paris, 1972), pl. 64.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].


Image

© Musée Antoine Vivenel, Compiègne. Photography: Benoît Roland.

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