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Barcelona, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC)

MNAC/MAC 5223

Ivory

Height: 182mm
Width: 90mm
Weight: 536g

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing in the Virgin's lap; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; bench.


Koechlin Number: 0641

Koechlin 1924 and Museum's opinion 2009: French, 2nd third of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: left hand of Christ.
Bench damaged at the back.

Provenance
Chabrière-Arlès collection, Paris. Plandiura collection, Barcelona (at least from 1924); acquired by the Barcelona Museus d'Art on 18 October 1932.

Bibliography
A. L. Mayer, Zwei Skulpturen des XIV. Jahrhunderts (Belvedere, 1922), no. 1, p. 17, pl. VIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 239; II, no. 641.
F. Duran i Canyameres, 'L'escultura medieval en la collecció Plandiura', in Butlletí dels Museus d'Art de Barcelona, vol. III, 31 (1933), pp. 353-356.
Guía de los Museos de Arte y arqueología de Barcelona (Barcelona, 1954), p. 72, fig. p. 70.
W. H. Forsyth, 'The Virgin and Child in Fourteenth Century Sculpture. (A method of classification)', in The Art Bulletin 39 (1957), pp. 173-182.
R. H. Randall, 'A Monumental Ivory', in Gatherings in Honour of Dorothy Miner, ed. by U.E. McCracken, L.M.C. Randall and R.H. Randall, Jr (Baltimore, 1974), pp. 283-300.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), pp. 131-165.
C. Little, 'Ivoires et art gothique', in Revue de l'art, 46 (1979), pp. 58-67 (p. 63).
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, p. 176.
P. Williamson, Medieval Sculpture and Works of Art. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (London, 1987), pp. 118-121.
L'època de les catedrals. Romànic/Gòtic. Tresors del Museu d'Art de Catalunya, exhibition catalogue, Girona, 1988, p. 180.
Entorn a Jaume I. De l'art romànic a l'art gòtic, exhibition catalogue, València, Palau dels Scala, 1989-1990, p. 201.
M. R. Terés, 'Verge amb el Nen', in Prefiguració del Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (Barcelona, 1992), p. 219 (with fig.).


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