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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 12101

Ivory;red stone (brooch)

Height: 240 mm
Width: 73 mm
Depth: 39 mm

Standing Virgin (originally standing Virgin and Child with Christ seated on right arm); crown.


Koechlin Number: 0846

Koechlin 1912 and 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Atelier of the Kremsmünster Diptych (Koechlin)

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: Christ. The figure of Christ must have been damaged and was changed into a large orb held by the Virgin. The brooch closing the Virgin's cloak is made of a red stone.

Provenance
Collection of Émile Baboin, Lyon (at least 1912-1924). Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris, in March 1996; acquired by the museum in 2003.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques: Collection Emile Baboin (Lyon, 1912), no. 26.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 301; II, no. 846.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Réapparition d'une Vierge d'ivoire gothique', in Objets d'art. Mélanges en l'honneur de Daniel Alcouffe (Dijon, 2004), pp. 46-55.


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