Saint John the Baptist holding the lamb of God (agnus dei); standing Virgin and Child; cruciform halo; saint Catherine of Alexandria with broken wheel and martyr's palm.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Foliated border.
Migeon 1909: France, late 14th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France, c. 1400 (?).
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Reverse
Crosshatching for glue.
Labelled: 'Exposition d'art religieux 1933 / La Psallette / de Nantes / 300'
Object Condition
Left border partly broken.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Delaherche (in 1860, if we accept this piece is no. 933 in the Amiens catalogue: description and measurements correspond but no image is given). Collection of Charles Piet-Lataudrie (d. 1909), Paris. Sold at the Stora gallery, Paris, 1933. Gift of Mr and Mrs Henry de Nanteuil de La Norville to the Museum in 1941.
Bibliography
Notice des tableaux et objets d'art, d'antiquité et de curiosité exposés dans les salles de l'Hôtel-de-Ville d'Amiens du 20 mai au 7 juin 1860, exhibition catalogue, Amiens, Hôtel-de-Ville, 20 May-7 June 1860, no. 933 (?).
G. Migeon, 'La Collection de M. Piet-Lataudrie', in Les Arts (August 1909), p. 7, fig. p. 6.
Exposition d'art religieux à la Psallette, exhibition catalogue, Nantes, Psallette de Nantes, 1933, no. 300.
Musées nationaux. Nouvelles acquisitions, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1945, no. 256.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. 135 n. 58).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 241.
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