Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on the Virgin's left arm; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a fruit in her right hand; tender gesture of Christ touching with his left hand the Virgin's chin.
Detroit 1997: French, 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: French, late 19th-early 20th century (?).
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Provenance
Collection of Windam Francis Cook, London. Collection of Michael Friedsam (b. 1858, d. 1931): bequest of Michael Friedsam to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1931.
Bibliography
Spanish and Portuguese Ornamental Art, exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1881, no. 474.
A. B. Skinner, Catalogue of the W. F. Cook Collection (London, 1904), I: Carving in Ivory and Bone, no. 510.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, no. 93.
S. Guérin, 'An ivory Virgin at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, in a Gothic sculptor's oeuvre', in The Burlington Magazine 1311, Vol. CLIV (June 2012), pp. 394-402 (p. 395 footnote).
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