Head of an Apostle

1. Probably from the Coronation portal or the Last Judgment portal of the west facade of Notre-Dame Cathedral [according to Gillerman, 2001, p. 9-11, and Metropolitan Museum, 2006, pp. 46-48 and 52-54]. Said to have been found during excavation of Boulevard Haussmann at the crossing of Boulevard Malesherbes, Paris, 1852 [according to an undated description by Jacob Hirsch in curatorial file]. Jacob Hirsch, New York, by February 1940 [lent by him to Boston 1940, no. 175]; sold by Hirsch to the Art Institute, 1944, for $35,000.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Arts of the Middle Ages, 17 February – 24 March 1940, cat. 175.
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Treasures from Medieval France, 15 November 1966 - 29 January 1967, cat. IV, 1.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “The Year 1200,” 12 February – 10 May 1970, cat. 15.
• Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Decorative-Applied Art from Late Antiquity to the Late Gothic Style, 14 May - 14 July 1990, and the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 14 August - 14 October 1990, cat. 37.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, September 25, 2004-January 3, 2005, cat. 18.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture, 26 September, 2006-February 18, 2007, cat. 14 [entry by Georgia Wright]
• Magdeburg, Kulturhistorisches Museum, Aufbruch in die Gotik. Der Magdeburger Dom und die späte Stauferzeit, 31 August - 6 December 2009, no. II.7, (entry by Klaus Niehr).

• Art Digest, “Boston Museum Opens Magnificent Exhibition of Medieval Art,” The Art Digest 14, 10 (February 15, 1940), p. 6, frontispiece.
• Art Institute of Chicago, “Great Medieval Art for Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago: The Year 1944 (1945), p. 4.
• Art News, “New Life to the Middle Ages: Chicago's Recent Purchases,” Art News 44, 1 (1945), pp. 20, 22 (ill.).
• Meyric R. Rogers and Oswald Goetz, Handbook to the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection (Chicago, 1945), p. 62, no. 6, pls. 10, 11, frontispiece.
• Meyric R. Rogers, “The Rehabilitation of the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 39, 3 (March 1945), p. 36, frontispiece.
• Antiques, “Additions to the Buckingham Medieval Collection,” Antiques 47, 4 (April 1945), p. 236.
• American Correspondent, “Medieval Sculpture in the Buckingham Collection,” The Connoisseur 120, 505 (September 1947), pp. 53–54, no. 7.
• Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1948), pp. 14–15 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1950), p. 18 (ill.).
• Charles Fabens Kelley, “Chicago: Record Years,” Art News 51, 4 (June - August 1952), p. 107 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, “A New Setting for the Medieval Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 53, 1 (February 1959), p. 8, ill. opp. p. 8.
• William D. Wixom, “Art Treasures from Medieval France - at Cleveland,” The Connoisseur 164, 659 (January 1967), pp. 58, 62.

Goblet

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Catalogue of Ironwork by the firm J. J. Ducel Fils, bound together with "Tarif des Poids et Prix des Articles en Forte de Fer de J. J. Ducel Maitre de Forges

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Shoulao

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Corset

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Oboe

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Flute

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First Arabesque Penchée

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Mechanical table

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