Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; crown.
Egbert 1929: North Italy with strong Flemish influence.
Paris 2004: France(Paris?), c. 1410-1420.
Museum's opinion 2012: France (Paris), c. 1400.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (halo, crown, hair, along the hems), blue, green (lining of the Virgin's cloak).
Reverse
Slightly curved in its lower part.
Object Condition
Nail driven in the Virgin's chest.
Comments
This piece is part of the same ensemble as two other reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum: 32.100.209 and 32.100.210.
Provenance
Collection of Mrs Camille Lelong (Laurentine Françoise Bernage). Collection of Sigismond Bardac. Collection of Henri S. de Souhami, Paris: sale, American Art Galleries, New York, 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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