Virgin and Child Artist: Unknown, French, Paris

ca. 1325–50

European Art

On view, 1st floor, Numismatics
Medium

Ivory

Dimensions

10 × 3 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. (25.4 × 9.5 × 5.7 cm)

Credit Line

Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896, Fund

Accession Number

1949.100

Culture

French, Paris

Period

14th century

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
D. Ricardo Blanco Collection, Santiago de Compostela; Spanish Art Gallery, London. Joseph Brummer Collection, New York; purchased at Joseph Brummer sale, New York, 14 May 1949, lot 696; Yale University Art Gallery (1949– )
Bibliography
  • Courtauld Institute of Art, "Gothic Ivories Project," http://gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk/index.html (accessed 2014), http://gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk/images/ivory/2AB43D5F_5e38a998.html
  • Richard H Randall, Jr., The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993), 38–39, no. 10, ill
  • Richard H Randall, Jr., The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993), no. 10
  • National Gallery of Canada, L'art et la cour: France et Angleterre 1259–1328, exh. cat. (Ottawa, Canada: National Gallery of Canada, 1972), no. 72, fig. pl. 97
  • Katherine Neilson and Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972), no. 118, fig. pl. 28
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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