Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat. Scored.

Object Condition
Ivory badly cracked.
Head and fingers broken and reattached; lower part of the legs broken and lost. Arms reattached (possibly not original or recarved); restorations on the torso, arms, left eye, edge of Christ's hair to the right.

Comments
Migeon 1904 claimed this piece was previously attached to the binding of a Bible made in 1340 (see Gaborit-Chopin 2003 for discussion).

Provenance
Said to have been affixed to the binding of a 1340 Bible (Migeon, 1904). Collection of Octave Homberg: his sale, at Georges Petit gallery, Paris, 11-16 May 1908, lot 471, fig. Collection of Mme Homberg. Collection of Guy Ladrière, Paris; his gift to the Musée du Louvre in 1984.

Bibliography
G. Migeon, 'Collection de M. Octave Homberg', in Les Arts 36 (December 1904), pp. 32-48 (p. 42, fig.).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 263, II, no. 736, III, pl. CXXI.
P. Thoby, Le Crucifix des origines au concile de Trente. Étude iconographique (Nantes, 1959) no. 291, p. 174, pl. CXXXVII.
Nouvelles acquisitions du département des Objets d'art, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1985, no. 5, fig.
L'art au temps des rois maudits: Philippe le Bel et ses fils (1285-1328), exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1998, no. 110.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 136.