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Statuette (Back)

Statuette (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

36.107

Ivory

Height: 219mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a stem of flowers in her right hand; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand.

Museum's opinion 2012: Netherlands (Utrecht), mid 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the Virgin's head; some parts of the Virgin's robe around base.

Provenance
Convent of the Chaise-Dieu (Haute-Loire). Mrs Camille Lelong (Laurentine Françoise Bernage), Paris (before 1902); Henri S. De Souhami, Paris: sale, New York, The American Art Association, 1922, lot 17; P. le Filippo (in 1922); C. Filippo, New York (until 1936?). Bought thanks to the Rogers Fund in 1936.

Bibliography
W. H. Forsyth, Four Fifteenth-Century Sculptures showing Flemish Influence', in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin XXXII (1937), pp. 66-67.


Image

Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photograph by Thomas Vinton, Medieval Art and The Cloisters.

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