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Subject
Religious.

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Angers, Musée des Beaux-Arts

MA 82 67 1

Ivory

Height: 135mm (without base)

Pietà (Lamentation of the Virgin over Christ's body).

Koechlin Number: 0969

Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Partly broken around the base.

Comments
Placed on a separate ivory base with foliated decoration (probably later).

Provenance
Collection of Pierre-Jean David, known as 'David d'Angers' (b. 1788, d. 1856), sculptor: his bequest to the Museum.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 345, 347; II, no. 969; III, pl. CLXIX.

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