Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 3 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Wing, left)

Wing, left
Register 1: Raising of Lazarus. Entry into Jerusalem; apostles including saint John the Evangelist holding a martyr's palm.
Register 2: Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding Judas across the table; Judas reaching out for a fish.
Register 3: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; soldiers in armour; Death of Judas (Judas hanging).
Wing, right
Register 1: Christ washing the feet of the apostles; Christ washing the feet of saint Peter.
Register 2: Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemani); God the Father blessing; apostles asleep; trees.
Register 3: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar.
Border of dentils.

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Maurice 1983 and Museum's opinion 2011: France or Germany (?), late 14th or early 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Three hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy and gilding: gold (architectural details; hair; beards; haloes; along the hems), red (mouths; blood; flowers), black (eyes), green (grass; trees).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Bought in 1814. Initially, the inventory number was 1531 (in 1924).

Bibliography
Notice des objets d'art exposés au Musée de Dijon et catalogue général de tous ceux qui dépendent de cet établissement (Dijon, 1842), no. 728.
Catalogue historique et descriptif du Musée de Dijon: peintures, sculptures, dessins, antiquités (Dijon, 1883), no. 1531.
H. Chabeuf, 'Deux ivoires du musée de Dijon', in Revue de l'Art Chrétien (1898), p. 225.
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 78.
H. Chabeuf, Mémoires de la commission des Antiquités de la Côte-d'or (Dijon, 1895-1900), XIII (1900), pp. 189-192, pl. XII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 286, 291; II, no. 793.
Exhibition of French Art 1200-1900, exhibition catalogue, London, Academy of Arts, 1932, no. 1083.
Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art français, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Palais national des arts, Paris, 1937, no. 1262, p. 572.
B. Maurice, Quelques recherches sur les ivoires du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, unpublished Mémoire de maîtrise de l'Université de Dijon, 1983, no. 18.

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