Deposition with thieves; Virgin in prayer supported by saint John the Evangelist; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; saint Mary Magdalene raising her arms at the foot of the cross; Holy Women praying; moon; soldiers; ladders.
Background with foliated decoration.
Museum's opinion 2011: France (Paris), c. 1400-1420.
Rotterdam 2012: Southern Netherlands or France (Paris), c. 1400-1425.
Williamson and Davies 2014: France (Paris), c. 1400-1410.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of original polychromy and gilding: pink, white, red, gold, black (possibly originally silver), red, green, blue, purple, brown.
Painted inscription: 'INRI' (black on white).
Object Condition
Missing: upper left portion and parts of the foliated openwork.
Provenance
Collection of Joseph Désiré de Lupus, Brussels (until 1919); bought in The Hague in 1819; Musée Lupus, Brussels (until 1822); transferred to the Koninklijk Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden, The Hague (in 1823); assigned to the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague (in 1875); transferred to Amsterdam in 1883.
Bibliography
A. Pit, Catalogus van beeldhouwkunst in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam (1904), no. 138, p. 33.
A. Pit, Catalogus van beeldhouwkunst in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam (1915), no. 35, p. 13.
J. Leeuwenberg, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum ('s-Gravenhage, 1973), no. 780.
J. Rasmussen, 'Untersuchungen zum Halleschen Heiltum des Kardinals Albrecht von Brandenburg', in Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 28 (1977), no. 409.
Gotische ivoren: Rijksmuseum het Catharijneconvent Utrecht... [plates volume of objects on display], Utrecht, exhibition catalogue, 1987, no. 71.
Een hogere werkelijkheid, Duitse en Franse beeldhouwkunst 1200-1600 uit het Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, ed. by F. Scholten and G. de Werd, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Museum Kurhaus Kleef, 2004, no. 62a.
S. Kemperdick, F. Lammertse, The Road to Van Eyck, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2012, no. 48.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 457 (no. 6), in relation to no. 157.
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