Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; crown.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd or 3rd quarter of 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, c. 1320-1340.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy and gilding, especially along the hem of the Virgin's cloak and in the hair.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: right forearm of the Virgin; head of Christ and possibly the top of the Virgin's head (replaced).
Provenance
Abel Lefranc collection from c. 1850 (had been purchased in the Noyon region, according to Lefranc). Acquired in 1907 by the Louvre thanks to Adolphe de Rothschild funding. tbc
Bibliography
G. Migeon, 'Deux statuettes de Vierges gothiques', in Musées et Monuments, 5 (1907), p. 68, pl. XVIII.
'Les Accroissements des musées', in Les Arts, 97 (Jan. 1910), p. 14.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I. p. 235; II, no. 630; III, pl. CV.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), no. 225.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 132.
Mille ans d'art et d'architecture à Noyon, exhibition catalogue, Noyon, Musée du Noyonnais, 1987.
Tesoros medievales del Museo del Louvre, exhibition catalogue, Mexico, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, 1993, no. 52.
C. Ferment, Les Statuettes d'ivoire en Europe du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle (Paris, 2000), p. 168, fig. X.6.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 138.
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