Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette; known as the Timbal Virgin (Vierge Timbal) (Side)

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; crown; brooch; blessing gesture.
Round base supported by two monsters.

Koechlin 1924: France, early 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, c. 1260-1270.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding, especially along the hem of the Virgin's cloak and in the hair.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: crown.
Restoration before 1882 (on index and middle finger, left hand of Christ; part of coat drapery and left foot of Virgin; on sides and underside of base, see report by Cascio & Levy 1996).Groove under base.
Modern silver crown (removed).

Provenance
Louis Charles Timbal collection (no. 41); acquired from him in 1882 by the Musée du Louvre.

Bibliography
Musées nationaux. Catalogue de la collection Timbal (Paris, 1882), no. 41.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires, (Paris, 1896), no. 51.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 105; II, no. 96; III, pl. XXIX.
R. Suckale, Studien zu Stilbildung und Stilwandel der Madonnenstatuen der Ile-de-France zwischen 1230 und 1300 (Munich, 1971), pp. 104, 105.
M. Seidel, 'Die Elfenbeinmadonna im Domschatz zu Pisa', in Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 16 (1972), pp. 42-43, fig, 50.
B. Guineau, 'Etude des couleurs dans la polychromie des ivoires médiévaux', in Bulletin de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France (1996), pp. 194, 195, 198.
A. Cascio and J. Levy, 'Les ivoires peints. La polychromie des statuettes d'ivoire' (introd. by D. Gaborit-Chopin), in Coré, 5 (1998), pp. 5-20.
A. Cascio and J. Levy, 'Ivoires gothiques: polychromie originale et repeints', in 12th Triennal Meeting Lyon. 29 aug.-3 sept. 1999 (Comité de l'ICOM pour la conservation), I (1999), pp. 429-433, fig. 1.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'La Vierge à l'Enfant d'ivoire de la Sainte-Chapelle', in La Sainte-Chapelle. L'art au temps de saint Louis (Dijon, 2001) (Dossiers d'archéologie, no. 264), p. 78.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 101.
S. Guérin, 'An ivory Virgin at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, in a Gothic sculptor's oeuvre', in The Burlington Magazine 1311, Vol. CLIV (June 2012), pp. 394-402, figs 11, 19, 22.

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