Inv. 71.288
Seated apostles; books (probably part of a Pentecost scene).
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: French (?), 14th century.
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Reverse
Fragment of paper pasted to the back, inscribed in ink, in French, signed 'Didier Petit', stating that this group, found in the river Loire, was from an altarpiece which, according to tradition, had been destroyed by the Baron des Ardrets.
Inscribed in a later handwriting 'Baronne de Theis'.
Provenance
Collection of the Baron de Theïs (Alexandre-Etienne-Guillaume Theïs (b. 1765, d. 1842)) and Baronne de Theïs (from at least 1867): sold, Drouot, Paris, 6-13 May 1874. Demotte collection, early 20th century. Bought by Henry Walters from Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co. in New York in 1922; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
Exposition universelle, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1867, no. 1761b.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. 117, fig. 14).
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