Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunstund Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)
Inv. 2225
Martyrdom of an unidentified female saint; female saint hanging; queen; emperor.
Destrée 1902: France or Belgium, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: mid 19th century.
Brussels 1964: France or Flanders, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France?, last quarter of the 18th century-1st half of the 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: German (Rhineland), 2nd half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Reverse
Hidden by the wooden frame.
Comments
Destrée suggests that the saint could be saint Barbe, Catherine or Julienne de Nicomédie.
Provenance
Unknown provenance.
Bibliography
J. Destrée, Catalogue des ivoires, des objets en nacre en os gravé et en cire peinte (Brussels, 1902), no. 26 (3784).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 306-308 (n. 1).
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 289, pl. CXXVIII, fig. 27.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. 115, fig. 9).
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].
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