Unidentified seated female saint.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 14th or early 15th 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: 19th century, before 1850.
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Object held in the Saint's left hand broken.One hole in the chest (for a jewel?) and in the head (for a crown).
A modern silver crown, which adorned the Saint's head in 1850, has since been removed.
Comments
Gaborit-Chopin (2003) suggested that a statuette of the Virgin and Child in the Louvre (inv. OA 2745) may have served as the model for this 19th century statuette. Molinier (1896) argued the saint originally held a palm.
Provenance
Préaulx collection: sold, Paris, 9 January 1850, lot 153 and acquired by the Musée du Louvre.
Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 7.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 107.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 257; II, no. 714.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (pp. 137-138, fig. 44).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Les ivoires gothiques. A propos d'un article récent', in Bulletin monumental 128-2 (1970), pp. 127-133 (pp. 130-132, fig. 4).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 286.
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