Standing saint John the Evangelist (part of a Crucifixion scene).
Koechlin 1924: France, early 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003: French (île-de-France or Picardy), 2nd quarter of 13th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Comments
This statuette probably belonged to the same group as the statuette of the Virgin now at the Louvre (OA 7882).
Provenance
Collection of Aimé Desmottes, Paris (at least from 1897): his sale, Paris, Drouot, 19-23 March 1900, lot 276. Collection of Georges Chalandon, Paris.
Bibliography
Exposition universelle de 1878 à Paris. Galerie de l'histoire du travail (Paris 1878).
A. Darcel, 'L'art ancien à l'Exposition de 1878', p. 200.
A. Darcel, 'Le Moyen-Age et la Renaissance au Trocadéro', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts XVIII (1878), p. 284.
G. Migeon, 'La collection de M. G. Chalandon', in Les Arts 42 (June 1905), pp. 24-25 (with ill.).
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, organisée par la marquise de Ganay chez Mr Jacques Seligmann, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Hôtel de Sagan, 1913, no. 110.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 263; II, no. 739B; III, pl. CXXII.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), p. 281, fig. 95a.
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