Saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); camel hide.
Egbert 1929: North Italian with strong Flemish influence.
Museum's opinion 2011: French (Paris), c. 1400.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (beard; hair; halo; camel hide); red (lining of the cloak).
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Comments
This piece is part of the same ensemble as two other reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum: 32.100.208 and 32.100.209.
Provenance
Collection of Mrs Camille Lelong (Laurentine Françoise Bernage). Collection of Sigismond Bardac. Collection of Henri S. de Souhami, Paris: sale, New York, American Art Galleries, 1922, lot 22. Collection of Michael Friedsam (b. 1858, d. 1931), New York: bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931.
Bibliography
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 191-198.
Paris 1400. Les Arts sous Charles VI, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2004, no. 128.
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