Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Very slight traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.
Missing: left hand of child and part of the Virgin's crown; part of the object the Virgin was holding (only a small ivory cylinder remains where a metal flower may have been inserted), hole for modern metal crown (lost).
Christ's head broken, then reattached. Crack at the base.Group restored in 1958.

Comments
According to Gaborit-Chopin 2003, this object is from the same workshop as MRR 303, also in the Louvre.

Provenance
Collection of Albert Bossy (d. 1903); collection of Lucile Sumpt Pelletan de Varennes (d. 1971), Paris; gift of Lucile Sumpt in memory of Albert Bossy, 25 July 1951.

Bibliography
G. Migeon, 'L'Exposition rétrospective de l'art français', in Revue de l'art ancien et moderne 1 (1900), p. 459.
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 88.
P. Leprieur, 'La Collection Bossy', in Les Arts, 35 (Nov. 1904), p. 23.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 234-235; II, no. 624; III, pl. CIV.
R. Koechlin, 'Essai de classement chronologique d'après la forme du manteau des Vierges du XIVe siècle portant l'Enfant', in Actes du congrès d'histoire de l'art, 1924, pp. 492-493.
Vingt ans d'acquisitions au musée du Louvre, 1947-1967, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, 1967-1968, no. 266.
M. Seidel, Die Elfeinbeinmadonna im Domschatz zu Pisa, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, XVI, 1972, note 48.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 104.