Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Side)

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on left arm; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; blessing gesture.

Darcel and Basilewski 1874: France, 13th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st third of the 14th century.
Kube 1925: France, end of the 1st third of the 14th century.
Lapkovskaia 1961: France, end of the 1st third of the 14th century.
Biriukova 1986: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: France, end of the 13th century-beginning of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (pattern along the hems; Virgin's hair), blue and red.

Reverse
Carved in the round, but lower relief on the back.

Object Condition
Missing: right hand of the Virgin (replaced); head and both arms of Christ; flower (later).
Bottom part of the cloak broken at the front.
Deep vertical cracks. Two round pins on the right forearm to secure the additional piece of ivory. Edge of the foot broken.
Two holes on the underside to secure the statuette onto a base.
Modern crown.

Provenance
Collection of Alexander Petrovich Basilewski (b. 1829, d. 1899), Paris, from 1865; acquired by the Museum in 1885.

Bibliography
A. Darcel, 'Le Musée rétrospectif', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 19 (1865), p. 296.
Exposition de 1865 au Palais de l'industrie, Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie (Paris, 1866), no. 306.
Exposition universelle, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1867, no. 1744.
A. Darcel, A. P. Basilewski, Collection Basilewski. Catalogue raisonné (Paris, 1874), no. 89.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), p. 409.
Exposition universelle, Paris, 1878, p. 185.
N. Kondakov, Императорский Эрмитажъ. Указатель отделенія среднихъ вековъ и эпохи возрожденія [Guide to the Department of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance of the Imperial Hermitage] (Saint Petersburg, 1891), p. 157, no. 56.
A. N. Kube, Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Putevoditel' po otdeleniiu srednikh vekov i epokhi Vozrozhdeniia [State Hermitage Museum. Guide to the Medieval and Renaissance sections] (Saint Petersburg, 1921), p. 9.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 106; II, no. 101.
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1925), no. 64.
Gosudarsvenniy Ermitazh. Vystavka frantsuzskogo iskusstva XII-XX vv., exhibition catalogue, Moscow, 1956, p. 146.
E. A. Lapkovskaia, Prikladnoe iskusstvo srednevekovoi Evropy in Vglub' vekov. Kniga o Gosudarstvennom Ermitazhe (Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], 1961), p. 221.
Ermitazh za 200 let (1764-1964). Istoriia i sostav kollektsii (Leningrad [Saint Petersburg]; Moscow, 1966), p. 65.
L. I. Faenson, M. Y. Kryzhanovskaya, E. A. Lapkovskaya, Западноевропейская резная кость IX - XIX веков из собрания Эрмитажа: каталог выставки (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1973), no. 170.
N. Biriukova, Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Zapadnoevropeiskoe prikladnoe iskusstvo XII-XVIII vekov (Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], 1974), p. 59.
N. Biriukova, Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Prikladnoe iskusstvo (Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], 1986), no. 117.
Zapadnoevropeiskoe prikladnoe iskusstvo srednikh vekov i epokhi Vozrozhdeniia iz kollektsii A. P. Bazilevskogo, exhibition catalogue, Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], The State Hermitage Museum, 1986, no. 14.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 66.

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