Virgin and Child in bust (Virgo lactans); naked Christ; cushion.
Molinier 1896: Northern Italy.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003: Netherlands (Flanders, Meuse), mid or 2nd half of the 15th century.
Malgouyres 2010: Northern Netherlands (Utrecht?), end of the 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Labelled: '2586', '2448'. Scored for gluing.
Object Condition
Missing: small part of the veil, above the Virgin's head.
Provenance
Collection of Louis-Charles Timbal (b. 1821, d. 1880), Paris (no. 59); acquired from him by the Museum in 1882.
Bibliography
L. Courajod, E. Molinier, Musées nationaux. Catalogue de la collection Timbal (Paris, 1882), no. 59.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 137, pp. 274-275.
E. Molinier, Histoire générale des Arts appliqués à l'Industrie. I: Les Ivoires (Paris, 1896), p.213.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 250.
Histoires d'ivoire. Collections du Musée du Louvre et des musées de Châlons-en-Champagne, exhibition catalogue, Châlons-en-Champagne, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, 2007-2008, no. 56.
P. Malgouyres, Ivoires de la Renaissance et des Temps Modernes. La Collection du Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2010), no. 53.
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