Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Museum's opinion 2011: France (Paris), c. 1350
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Faint trace of gilding and polychromy: bole for gold (candlestick), ochre-brown colour of the background seems to indicate that it once was painted blue but the same colour seems to have been used for the robe and cloak of the Virgin; traces of black (veil of the Virgin, inside the hinges, in some parts of the arcature, etc.; modern).
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Several Musée Vivenel labels.
Longer edges slightly chamfered.
Object Condition
Later hole in each upper corner and central hole in the lower part of the panel.
Provenance
Collection of Antoine Vivenel (b. 1799, d. 1862), Paris (from the 2nd quarter of the 19th century); made into a museum in 1841; given to the town of Compiègne in 1843.
Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 151 (?).
Tardy, Les Ivoires (Paris, 1972), pl. 26.
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