Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy, two layers of polychromy, lower one is original.

Reverse
Flat; some relief on drapery at back.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.
Missing: Virgin's right forearm and part of the left hand.Chips at edge of drapery and at knees; lower part damaged; modern metal support inserted in lower part.

Comments
This statuette probably belonged to the same group as the statuette of saint John the Evangelist formerly in the Desmottes collection (see Gaborit-Chopin 2003, fig. 95a). See related object.

Provenance
Collection of Aimé Desmottes, Paris: his sale, Paris, Drouot, 19-23 March 1900, lot 277. Marguerite Hache collection, Thénioux (Cher, France); gift of Mr Hache, 1926, accepted 22 March 1927.

Bibliography
G. Migeon, 'La collection de M. G. Chalandon', in Les Arts, no. 42, June 1905, p. 25.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 263; II, no. 739A; III, pl. CXXII.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 95.