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Statuette (Back)

Statuette (Back)
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Front

Front

Subject
Religious. Life of saints.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 2765

Ivory

Height: 109mm
Width: 70mm
Depth: 27mm

Seated Saint Jerome with a book; St Jerome pulling a thorn from a lion's paw; pulpit.


Koechlin Number: 0985C

Courajod, Molinier 1885: Lombardo-Venitian or German, end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th century.
Molinier 1896: Northern Italy, 15th century.
Koechlin 1924: Italy, 15th century.
Malgouyres 2010: Northern Italy, 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat, with some scoring. Blue and white oval label with inscription. An ivory plaquette is inserted at the back under the saint's left arm.

Object Condition
The upper part of the saint's hood is made of a different piece of ivory.

Provenance
Collection of Baron Charles Davillier: his bequest in 1883.

Bibliography
E. Molinier, 'Un ivoire italien du XVe siècle au musée du Louvre. Le Triomphe de la Renommée', in Gazette archéologique (1883), pp. 226-233 (p. 226, n. 1).
L. Courajod, E. Molinier, Donation du baron Charles Davillier. Catalogue des objets exposés au musée du Louvre (Paris, 1885), no. 54, p. 48.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 143, pp. 289-290.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 349; II, no. 985C; III, pl. CLXXIII.
P. Malgouyres, Ivoires de la Renaissance et des Temps Modernes. La Collection du Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2010), no. 51.


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