Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Front)

Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo lactans); Christ in long robe; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Virgin with her left foot on a cushion; bench.

Koechlin 1924: France, mid-14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, 1st third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (modern, covering original polychromy and gilding. See report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 1995).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: left forearm of Christ.Ivory cracked. Open crack to Christ's right wrist. Chip to the veil, parts of crown broken. Nose and forehead of the Virgin (and three other pieces) reattached.
Crosshatching for glue under the base.

Provenance
Collection of Édouard Corroyer, Paris (d. 1904)(in 1900); gift of Mrs Édouard Corroyer to the Musée du Louvre in 1905.

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 96 (Corroyer collection).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 242; II, no. 674.
B. Guineau, 'Études des couleurs dans la polychromie des ivoires médiévaux', in Bulletin de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France, 1996, pp. 188-210.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 140.

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