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Diptych, 2 registers, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles) (Front)
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Front

Wing, left

Wing, right

Subject
Religious. Life of Christ. Passion.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 7273

Ivory;beads (eyes)

Height: 161mm
Width: 93mm (wing)
Depth: 7mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem; saint Peter holding a key.
Register 2: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; woman holding a lantern (Hedroit?).
Wing, right
Register 1: Christ washing the feet of saint Peter; apostles.
Register 2: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; rugged cross.
Pointed trefoils and quatrefoils in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0806

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Germany?, c. 1360-1380 or 19th century?


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Reverse
Labelled 'exposition universelle 1900'.
Recessed with a raised border.

Object Condition
Very cracked, very dry. Small chips to the borders. Lower right corner burnt and broken.

Comments
The iconography is reminiscent of the Atelier of the Master of the Great Passion Diptychs. The style, however, is very different, and the inlaying of beads in the eyes is an unusual feature.

Provenance
Collection Félix Doistau, Paris; gift of Félix Doistau, 1919.

Bibliography
G. Migeon, 'L'Exposition rétrospective de l'art français', in Revue de l'art ancien et moderne, VII, 1900, p. 460.
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 137.
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques ateliers d'ivoiriers français aux XIII et XIVe siècles. III. L'atelier des diptyques de la Passion', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 35 (1906), p. 59.
Les Accroissements des musées français (sous la direction d'Henri Rivière), III, Le Musée du Louvre en 1920. Dons, legs et acquisitions (Paris-New York: Demotte, 1921), fig. p. 48.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 292, 296; II, no. 806.
E. Gross, Religious Relief Ivory Carving During the Regency and the Reign of Charles V of France (1356-1380), (Ann Arbor, 1986), pp. 236-237.
R. Koekkoek, Gotische ivoren in het Catharijneconvent (Utrecht, 1987), fig. 8a.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 219.


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