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Subject
Religious.

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Auxerre, Treasury of Saint-Etienne cathedral

Inv. 52

Ivory

Height: 300m
Width: 50mm

Standing Virgin (possibly part of a Crucifixion scene).


Koechlin Number: 0742

Inventaire 1892: France, 15th century.
Koechlin 1924: Metz (?), 14th century (?). Koechlin thought that this piece was partly re-carved in the 17th century.
Palissy database 2012: 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: hands of the Virgin.
Trace of a missing crown.

Comments
In the 1892 Inventaire, this statuette was considered to have originally been a Virgin and Child, where the Child was lost.

Provenance
Said to have come from Metz cathedral (Koechlin 1924). Bequest of Mrs Duru, 10 November 1868 to the fabrique Saint-Etienne, Auxerre.

Bibliography
M. Bonneau, M. Monceaux, M. F. Molard, Inventaire du trésor de la cathédrale d'Auxerre (Auxerre, 1892), no. 52.
Exhibited at the Exposition rétrospective de l'art français des origines à 1800, Paris, Petit Palais, 1900, but not catalogued.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 264; II, no. 742.
Palissy database: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/dapapal_fr [accessed June 2012].


Image

© Josette Laliaux - Ville d'Auxerre.

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