Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (hem and Virgin's cloak)

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Cracked. Chipped at the feet and on the back of the base.
Right hand of the Virgin restored.

Provenance
Collection of Émile Baboin, Lyon. Collection of Sigismond Bardac, Paris (this ivory does not appear in his sale catalogue, Georges Petit, Paris, 10 May 1920). Bought from Raphael Stora, New York, in 1950 thanks to the Edward Drummond Libbey Endowment.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques: Collection Emile Baboin (Lyon, 1912), no. 24.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 236; II, no. 632bis.
R. Riefstahl, 'Medieval Art, in Toledo Museum News, n.s. 7, no. 1 (1964), p. 17.
'Medieval Art at Toledo: A Selection', in Apollo 86, no. 70 (1967), fig. 9.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 23.
A. von Hülsen-Esch, 'Paris-Köln und zurück. Gedanken zur Madonna von Ochtrup-Langenhorst und der Elfenbeinproduktion im Rheinland', in Luft unter die Flügel... Beiträge zur mitterlalterlichen Kunst: Festschrift für Hiltrud Westermann-Angerhausen, ed. by A. von Hülsen-Esch and D. Täube (Hildesheim, Munich and New York, 2010), p. 179, fig. 7.