Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: green (crown of thorns), red (blood), gold (hair).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: arms.
The lower part of the piece broke and has been re-attached.

Comments
The sculpture's style relates it to works produced in Paris about 1300, during the reign of King Philip the Fair, but the use of walrus ivory suggests that it was carved by a Parisian artist (or one who trained for many years in the capital) working in England, Scandinavia, or Cologne, where valuable elephant ivory was less easily obtained (Metropolitan Museum online catalogue, 2012).

Provenance
Private collection, Argentina (c. 1964-2004); Arte y Antiguedates, Buenos Aires, 2004; Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris 2004-2005: acquired by the museum in 2005.

Bibliography
C. T. Little, P. Barnet, B. Drake Boehm, H. C. Evans and T. B. Husband, 'Medieval Europe' in Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Autumn 2006), pp. 24-28 (p. 26).
P. Barnet, 'Recent Acquisitions (1999-2008) of Medieval Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters, New York', in The Burlington Magazine 150 (2008), pp. 793-800 (p. 798, fig. XVII).
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), fig. 1, in relation to no. 25.