Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (several layers, gilding and blue are original, see report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 1987).

Reverse
Flat. Pulp cavity visible. 19th-century restorations where the ivory was particularly thin.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.
Missing: whole right section, a piece from the head of Christ, the hands of the two soldiers, part of the soldier's cloak to the left.
Chips on the base. Scratches for glue on right side. Two holes under the base.

Comments
Koechlin claimed this and 6 other reliefs (or fragments) were made by the same craftsman, and possibly coming from the same altarpiece; when the pieces were brought together in 1981, it was shown that only this object and the Antwerp Mocking of Christ (see related object) were by the same hand (Gaborit-Chopin 2003).

Provenance
Charles Mège collection, Paris (before 1909); collection of Élisabeth Mège, Paris; bequest of Élisabeth Mège in 1958, accepted by the Musée du Louvre in 1961.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, 'Les retables français en ivoire du commencement du XIVe siècle', in Monuments et Mémoires Fondation Piot 13 (1906), pl. VII.
G. Migeon, 'Collection de M. Charles Mège', in Les Arts, no. 86, February 1909, p. 14, fig. p. 10.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 142, 143; II, no. 223; III, pl. LVII.
H. Landais, 'La donation Mège', in Revue du Louvre, 1961, p. 15, fig.
Vingt ans d'acquisitions au musée du Louvre, 1947-1967, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, 1967-1968, no. 264.
Art of the Courts of France and England from 1259-1328; L'Art et la cour: France et Angleterre 1259-1328, exhibition catalogue, Ottawa, Galerie nationale du Canada, 1972, no. 81, pl. 106.
F. Poplin, 'Analyse de matière de quelques ivoires d'art', in Colloque internationale du C.N.R.S., no. 568. Méthodologie appliquée à l'industrie de l'os préhistorique, abbaye de Sénanque, June 1976, p. 88, fig. a, b.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Âge occidental (Fribourg, 1978), p. 150.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 134.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Les ivoires gothiques français', in Louvre. Trésors du Moyen Âge. Dossier de l'art, no. 16, Dec. 1993-Jan. 1994, fig. 8.
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. 19, pp. 150-151.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 135.
K. K. Petzel, Elfenbein Diptychon mit Passions- und Erscheinungsszenen (Cologne, 2007), fig. 4.
J. Santrot and D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Le Don Seligman au musée Dobrée: un ivoire parisien du XIVe siècle', in La Revue des musées de France. Revue du Louvre (January 2011), pp. 43-55 (pp. 47-48, fig. 10)
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 133, in relation to no. 41.