Nativity with Joseph; Virgo lactans; curtains.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 13th century.
Natanson 1951: French, c. 1260-1280.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: French (Paris), c. 1250-c. 1260.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
No trace of polychromy.
Object Condition
Ivory cracked.
Chip to left hand of Joseph. Right side uneven. Notch and hole in upper part of the panel.
Provenance
Charles Stein collection, Paris. Louis-Charles Timbal collection, Paris (no. 46); acquired by the Musée du Louvre in 1882.
Bibliography
A. Darcel, 'Le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance au Trocadéro', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, II, 1878, p. 289, fig. p. 201.
L. Courajod, E. Molinier, Musées nationaux. Catalogue de la collection Timbal (Paris, 1882), no. 46.
L. Gonse, L'Art gothique (Paris, 1891), engraving p. IV.
E. Molinier, Catalogue des ivoires. Musée national du Louvre, (Paris, 1896), no. 38.
R. Koechlin, Les ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 65-66, 82; II, no. 33; III, pl. XII.
J. Natanson, Gothic Ivories of the 13th and 14th Centuries (London, 1951), pp. 10, 32, fig. 11.
Imago Christi, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Pavillon du Saint-Siège, 1958, no. 67.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), no. and fig. 210.
F. Avril, X. Barral y Altet and D. Gaborit-Chopin, Le Monde roman, les Royaumes d'Occident (Paris, 1983), fig. 6, 8.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 108.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), pp. 46-49, fig. 28, in relation to no. 3.
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