Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker holding a scroll; two angels holding the Sun and the Moon.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with protruding cones in the spandrels.
Catalogue 1910: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st quarter of the 14th century (left wing).
Mann 1931: French, 14th century.
Randall 1985 and Walters Art Museum's opinion 2010: French (Paris), 1340-1350 (left wing).
Museum's opinion 2009: French, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Master of the Mège Diptych
Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges on the left side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.
Reverse
Modern labels with inscriptions: 'VIII G/440', '440' (440 corresponds to the Wallace Collection catalogue number). Label: '5'.
Object Condition
Vertical crack down the whole panel.
Two central holes in the upper part of the panel (later).
Comments
The left wing of this diptych is now in Baltimore (Inv. 71.248). See related object.
Provenance
Receipted bill from Flandin, 6 November 1865 'un coté de diptique', together with other objects for a value of 900 francs); collection of the Count Alfred-Émilien de Nieuwerkerke (b. 1811, d. 1892)(from 1865); purchased from him by Sir Richard Wallace in 1871.
Bibliography
Catalogue of the Furnitures, Marbles, Bronzes, Clocks, Candelabra, Majolica,... Miniatures and Objects of Art Generally in the Wallace Collection, 6th ed. (London, 1910), no. 440.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 400; III, pl. LXXXV (left wing).
J. G. Mann, Wallace Collection Catalogues: Sculptures, Marbles, Terracotas and Bronzes, Carvings in Ivory and Wood, Plaquettes, Medals, Coins and Wax-Reliefs (London, 1931 with 1981 supplement), p. 92, pl. 62.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 153 (left wing).
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 291 (left wing).
Avori bizantini e medievali nel museo nazionale di Ravenna, ed. by L. Martini and C. Rizzardi (Ravenna, 1990), p. 49, fig. 22.
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