
Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ
French · c. 1350
Provenance
Ownership history
- The Jesuit Church at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, before 1900 [according to undated memo from John Maxon in curatorial file]. Stonyhurst College, Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, 1900 [according to source cited above and Stonyhurst accession number, 00.13, on front of object and letter of 23 December 1969 from Ronald Lee to Richard Randall, copy in curatorial file]. Offered for sale, London, Sotheby's, 2 December 1969, lot 13, bought in and subsequently sold to Ronald A. Lee, London [according to letter cited above and email from Elizabeth Wilson, Sotheby's, 15 July, 2003, copy in curatorial file]; sold by Ronald A. Lee to the Art Institute, 1970.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Medieval Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, 2 October 1985–5 January 1986, no. cat. no..
Literature
Published references
- Advertisement, The Connoisseur 173, 697 (1970), n.p.
- Richard H. Randall, Jr., The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), pp. 76-77, no. 76, ill.
- Harvey Stahl, "Narrative Structure and Content in Some Gothic Ivories of the Life of Christ" in Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. Peter Barnet, exh. cat. Detroit Institute of Arts, 1997), pp. 104-106, fig. VII-5.
- C[hristina] M. N[eilsen] in Christina M. Nielsen, ed., “Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Museum Studies 30, 2 (2004), pp. 61, 94, no. 39, ill.
- Nina Rowe, “Pocket Crucifixions: Jesus, Jews, and Ownership in Fourteenth-Century Ivories,” Studies in Iconography, 32 (2011), pp. 81, 39, 111 n. 17, fig. 1.
- John Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in The Courtauld Gallery. Complete Catalogue (London, 2013), p. 80 under no. 12.
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