Saint John the Evangelist and onlookers (part of a Crucifixion scene).
Koechlin 1924: 19th century (ignored the provenance).
Museum's opinion 2011: 18th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Missing: left foot of one of the onlookers.
Provenance
Collection of the marquis de Migieu: bought by the Museum in 1810.
Bibliography
L. Gonse, Les Chefs-d'oeuvre des musées de province, Sculpture, Dessins, Objets d'art (Paris, 1904), p. 250.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 306-308, n. 1.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (pp. 114-115, fig. 6).
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