Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on the Virgin's left arm; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand.
KIK/IRPA 2012: France (Arras), 1st half of the 13th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Provenance
Given by Pope Honorius IV in 1285 to Countess Beatrice of Brabant, donated by her to the abbey of Groeninge; donated in 1803 by the last abbess of the abbey to the church of St Michael in Courtrai.
Bibliography
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), p. 143.
S. Guérin, 'An ivory Virgin at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, in a Gothic sculptor's oeuvre', in The Burlington Magazine 1311, Vol. CLIV (June 2012), pp. 394-402, figs 10, 20, 23.
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