Attack on the Castle of Love; winged God of Love throwing arrows, supported by two winged figures (angels?); mock tournament; knights in armour jousting with rose branches; battlements; portcullis; horses; lady leaning out of a window to embrace a knight; lady crowning a knight with a wreath; knights on horseback; couple embracing (meeting of lovers); towers.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.
Koechlin 1924: French, 1st half of 14th century.
Rouen 2000-2001: French, c. 1330-1350.
Museum's opinion 2011: Paris, c. 1330-1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Provenance
Collection of Abbé de Tersan. Collection of Baron Dominique Vivant Denon: his sale, Paris, 1826, lot 694, to Dubois, for 98 francs (L. J. Y. Dubois, Description des objets d'art qui composent le cabinet de feu M. le baron V. Denon (Paris, 1826), no. 694, p. 148; accessible online through Gallica.bnf.fr). Collection of Lancelot Théodore, comte de Turpin Crissé (b. 1782, d. 1859); his bequest to the Museum in 1859.
Bibliography
H. Jouin, Inventaire général des richesses d'art de la France (1885), III, no. 2, p. 262.
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 155.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 406-408; II, no. 1096.
A. Recouvreur, 'Nos ivoires français du XIVe siècle et quelques autres', in Cahier de Pincé (1929), no. 5, p. 9.
A. Recouvreur, Musée Turpin de Crissé (Hôtel de Pincé), catalogue-guide (Angers, 1932), no. 97, pp. 129-130.
K. Sauvignon, Lancelot Théodore, comte de Turpin Crissé (1782-1859) - collectionneur - donateur. Inventaire et analyse du fonds Turpin de Crissé des Musées d'Angers, unpublished dissertation, Paris, école du Louvre, 1995-1996, no. 597.
Dominique Vivant Denon, l'oeil de Napoléon, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1999-2000, no. 479.
Miroirs. Jeux et reflets depuis l'Antiquité, exhibition catalogue, Rouen, Musée départemental des Antiquités, 2000-2001, no. 91 (mistakenly designated as MTC 1136).
Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé: peintre et collectionneur, Paris, 1782-1859, dir. by P. Le Nouëne, exhibition catalogue, Angers, Musée des beaux-arts and Boulogne-Billancourt, Bibliothèque Marmottan, 2006-2007, p. 66.
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