Youth and lady at the gate of the Castle of Love; couple embracing; bearded man hiding behind a tree to observe a couple.
Interpreted as The Knight with the Red Robe (see Carns 2010).
Koechlin 1924: French, end of 14th century.
Mae Carns 2010: French, c. 1375.
Attribution
Unknown
Comments
This panel forms a pair with another one also formerly in the Kofler-Truniger collection (see related objects).
Paula Mae Carns (2010) interprets these panels as illustrating the 13th century French fabliau 'The Knight with the Red Robe'. This panel is interpreted as, an elderly messenger hiding behind a hillock acting as a go-between for a lady and her lover whilst her husband is away, the lady waits on the ramparts of the castle for her lover to arrive, the couple embrace outside the castle.
Provenance
Stroganoff collection, Rome. Kofler-Truniger collection, Lucerne: dispersed in the 1970s.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 410; II, no. 1179; III, pl. CXCVII.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), pp. 111 and 113.
P. Mae Carns, 'Having the last laugh: the fabliau of 'The knight with the red robe' in carved ivory', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CLII, no. 1292 (November 2010), pp. 712-715.
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