Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (two layers, gilding may be original. See report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 1985).

Reverse
Smooth. Slightly concave.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked in the lower part.
Broken: fringes on the forehead, end of the hat, end of the whip. Nose, forearm, and feet restored.

Comments
This relief is probably part of the same Flagellation group as a Christ tied to the column formerly in the Martin Le Roy collection. Gaborit-Chopin 2003 proposes a common origin with a lost work depicting Christ at the column from the collection of Martin Le Roy (Koechlin 224)(See Gaborit-Chopin 2003, fig. 134a).

Provenance
Collection of Charles Mège, Paris (before 1909); collection of Élisabeth Mège, Paris; bequest of Élisabeth Mège in 1958, received by the Musée du Louvre in 1961.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, 'Les retables français en ivoire du commencement du XIVe siècle', in Monuments et Mémoires. Fondation Eugène Piot, XIII, 1906, p. 68, pl. VII, 2.
G. Migeon, 'Collection de M. Charles Mège', in Les Arts, no. 86, Feb. 1909, p. 10, fig.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 142, 144; II, no. 225; III, pl. LVII.
H. Landais, 'La donation Mège', in Revue du Louvre, 1961, p. 15, fig. 5.
Vingt ans d'acquisitions au musée du Louvre, 1947-1967, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, 1967-1968, no. 265.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 133.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 134.