Cl. 3268
Ordination ceremony; bishop ordaining another kneeling bishop; two other bishops; mitre; crozier.
Foliated decoration. Medallions with heads.
In boxwood: lion; animals (dogs?); male heads; foliated decoration; inscriptions: 'LEX DEI VERA EST' (top), 'OMNE MALIGNUM' (2nd from the top), 'PER CRUCIS HOC' (base).
Museum's opinion 2010: 18th century (?).
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Lenoir (b. 1761, d. 1839). Collection of Louis-Fidel Debruge-Duménil (b. 1788, d. 1838): Debruge-Duménil sale, Paris (Hôtel des ventes mobilières, rue des Jeuneurs: Bonnefons de Lavialle and Roussel), 23 January - 12 March 1849, lot 1479; collection of Prince Petr Soltykoff, Paris: sold, Paris, Drouot, 8 April 1861, lot 207, to Alexandre Du Sommerard.
Bibliography
A. Lenoir, Musée des monumens français, ou Description historique et chronologique des statues en marbre et en bronze, bas-reliefs et tombeaux des hommes et des femmes célèbres, pour servir à l'histoire de France et à celle de l'art [...], 8 vols (Paris, 1800-1821), II, pp. 28-29 and pl. 61 (dated 11th century). Accessible online through Gallica: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k63940472/f13.image.r=.langEN [accessed 14/08/2013].
Catalogue raisonné des objets d'art et de curiosité des tableaux, dessins et miniatures légués par le Dr C. Cavalier (Montpellier, 1898), p. 8, in relation to no. 13. Accessible online: http://museefabre.montpellier-agglo.com/pdf.php/?filePath=var/storage/original/application/46b902230ef00202053205d5957a547f.pdf [accessed 14/08/2013].
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