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Statuette (part of a group) (Front)

Statuette (part of a group) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 12517

Ivory

Height: 235mm
Width: 50mm

Saint John the Evangelist (part of a Deposition scene).

Museum's opinion 2013: Paris, c. 1270-1280.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Comments
This recently acquired statuette is part of a Deposition group which includes Christ being taken down from the cross by Joseph of Arimathea and the Virgin holding his hand, with Ecclesia standing by (OA 3935) and statuettes of Synagoga (OA 12516; also recently acquired) and a kneeling figure holding a scroll (possibly Nicodemus; OA 9443). They would originally have been contained in an architectural framework (see Gaborit-Chopin 2003, p. 302 and fig. 103a).

Provenance
Collection of Paul Corbin (b. 1862, d. 1948); acquired in 2013 thanks to Axa Art with the support of more than 4500 donators, among them Marie-Claire and Romain Burnand, Olivier et Jean-Marie Lecomte, Fondation Gandur pour l'Art, EOZ and Hugau Gestion.

Bibliography
E. Antoine, 'Les deux statuettes qui manquaient à la Descente de Croix', in Grande Galerie. Le journal du Louvre', 23 (March-April-May 2013), pp. 6-8.
E. Antoine König and J. Levy-Hinstin, La Descente de Croix (Paris, 2013).


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