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Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

Pax (baiser de paix) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Châlons-en-Champagne (also known as Châlons-sur-Marne), Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie

Inv. 899.11.205

Ivory

Height: 108mm
Width: 76mm
Depth: 22mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; skull of Adam at the foot of the cross.
Crosshatched background.

Catalogue 2007-2008: France, 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved. The handle which was originally set into a chamfered slot in the back has been lost.

Provenance
Said to have come from the abbey of Saint-Denis (see second Garinet notebook (objets d'art), no. 30: 'La paix en ivoire de l'abbaye de Saint-Denis représentant le Christ en croix, avec saint Jean debout devant la croix XVe siècle'). Collection of Jules Garinet (b. 1797, d. 1877): by inheritance to his wife, Marguerite-Victoire Garinet; Garinet bequest to the museum in 1899.

Bibliography
Histoires d'ivoire. Collections du Musée du Louvre et des musées de Châlons-en-Champagne, exhibition catalogue, Châlons-en-Champagne, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, 2007-2008, no. 16, p. 150 (part 2).


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