Last Judgement with Resurrection of the Dead (Christ in Glory); Christ displaying his wounds; Christ seated on a rainbow; souls rising from their tombs, including a bishop and a tonsured figure; angels holding Instruments of the Passion (cross; spear); Virgin and saint John the Baptist kneeling.
Foliated decoration.
Museum's opinion 2012: France (Paris), c. 1420.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy: green (grass, cloak), blue (background, cloak), gold (background, cross, cloak), red (blood).
Reverse
Hidden by the mount.
Comments
Saint John the Evangelist seems to have been depicted instead of saint John the Baptist.
Provenance
Collection of M. Charles Mannheim (b. 1833, d. 1910). Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
E. Molinier, Collection Charles Mannheim (Paris, 1898), no. 17.
G. C. Williamson, Catalogue of the collection of jewels and precious works of art, the property of J. Pierpont Morgan (London, 1910), no. 31, pl. XVIII, 2, p. 43 ff.
The Pierpont Morgan wing: a handbook by Joseph Breck and Meyric Rogers (New York, 1929), 2nd ed., p. 127.
The Life of Christ, exhibition catalogue, Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1948, no. 217.
E. Panofsky, 'A Parisian Goldsmith's Model of the Early Fifteenth Century?', in Beiträge für Georg Swarzenski zum 11. Januar 1951, ed. by O. Götz (Berlin, 1951), pp. 72-73, 81, 83, fig. 6.
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