Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (Koechlin 1924).

Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.

Object Condition
Missing: both forearms which must have been made of different pieces of ivory. Large hole in the centre, right through the statuette.

Comments
This statuette may have originally held a relic.

Provenance
Collection of Vicomte Wallerand (?) de Baré de Comogne, Ghent (in 1913). Art dealer Georges J. Demotte (b. 1877, d. 1923), Paris and New York (sold in 1920). George and Florence Blumenthal collection, Paris and New York (in or before 1926); gift of George Blumenthal to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1941.

Bibliography
M. G. Terme, L'art ancien au pays de Liège. Album publié sous le patronage de Comité Exécutif de l'Exposition Universelle de Liège (1905), III, pl. LXXXIV, no. 1460.
P. Bergmans, J. Casier, L'Art ancien dans les Flandres. Mémorial de l'Exposition rétrospective organisée à Gand en 1913, 3 vols, (Bruxelles and Paris, 1914), I, pl. VIII, fig. 18
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 320, n. 1; II, no. 852; III, pl. CLII.
S. Rubinstein-Bloch, Catalogue of the collection of George and Florence Blumenthal (Paris, 1926), III, pl. IV.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 158.
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. 29, pp. 167-169.