Cl. 439b
Register 1: Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet. Entombment. Resurrection; angel standing on the tomb; two soldiers asleep. Noli me Tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene).
Register 2: Christ led away by soldiers (arrest of Christ). Flagellation. Carrying of the Cross. Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 15th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: French (?), last quarter of the 18th century-1st half of the 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France (?), 19th century.
Attribution
Master of the Bearded Men Forgeries (Leeuwenberg)
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Comments
This panel is part of the same ensemble as another piece also in the Musée de Cluny (Cl. 439a).
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired for the museum in 1843.
Bibliography
A. Du Sommerard, Les Arts du Moyen Âge (Paris, 1838-46), album: 2nd series, pl. XX.
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1096.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 324; II, no. 865; III, pl. CLVI.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (pp. 142-143, fig. 50).
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