Crucified Christ.
Notable Acquisitions 1975-1979 (C. Little): c. 1230-1250.
Detroit 1997: French (Paris?), c. 1260-1280.
Museum's opinion 2011: France (Paris), c. 1260-1280.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: brown, red.
Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.
Object Condition
Missing: arms of Christ; right leg; lower part of the left leg.
Surface damaged and cracked.
Provenance
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime Levy Hermanos; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime Levy Hermanos, 1978.
Bibliography
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Notable Acquisitions 1975-1979, p. 24 illus.
R. Briat, 'Un Christ gothique en ivoire français donné au Metropolitan Museum de New York', in Connaissance des Arts (August 1979), p. 65.
C. Little, 'Ivoires et art gothique', in Revue de l'art 46 (1979), p. 60.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, no. 8.
Mirror of the Medieval World, exhibition catalogue, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, no. 127, pp. 105-106.
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