Attribution
Entourage of André Beauneveu (Gaborit-Chopin 2003)

Polychromy - Gilding
Faint traces of polychromy (see report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 1993).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Some cracks. On head, traces of a metal tenon with 2 holes behind the head, probably for a crown (the statue used to have a modern metal crown, perhaps a replacement for an original).
Hole under the base.
Modern: left hand, book, one finger of the right hand, end of the right foot and hems of the dress lying against the ground.

Comments
This female saint may originally have held a wheel in her left hand, attribute, together with the sword, of saint Catherine of Alexandria. Very close stylistically to the monumental statue of saint Catherine in Notre-Dame de Courtrai, attributed to André Beauneveu, c. 1374-1384.

Provenance
Collection of Louis-Charles Timbal, Paris (no. 58); acquired by the Musée du Louvre in 1882.

Bibliography
L. Courajod, E. Molinier, Musées nationaux. Catalogue de la collection Timbal (Paris, 1882), no. 58.
E. Molinier, Catalogue des ivoires. Musée national du Louvre (Paris, 1896), no. 120, with engraving.
E. Molinier, Histoire générale des Arts appliqués à l'Industrie (Paris, 1896), I: Les Ivoires, p. 189.
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