Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on left arm; tender gesture of Christ touching with his left hand the Virgin's chin.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 13th century.
Seidel 1972: France, c. 1250.
Museum's opinion 2012: Paris, 1260-1270.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: right forearm of the Virgin.
Provenance
Collection of Le Fèvre-Bourgon, Amiens. Collection of Félix Doistau (b. 1846, d. 1936), Paris (in 1900). Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), New York and London; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 94 (Doistau collection).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français, 1924, I, p. 101; II, no. 75; III, pl. XXVI (mistakenly designated as no. 74).
M. Seidel, 'Die Elfenbeinmadonna im Domschatz zu Pisa', in Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 16 (1972), fig. 51, 54; p. 43.
C. Little, 'Ivoires et art gothique', in Revue de l'art 46 (1979), no. 46. p. 62, fig. 11, ill.
W. D. Wixom, 'A Late Thirteenth-Century English Ivory Virgin', in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 50, no. 3 (1987), p. 342.
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