Triptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ

1. Frédéric Spitzer (b. 1815 - d. 1890), Paris [see Palustre and Molinier 1890, p. 47, no. 60]; his estate sale, Paris, Chevallier and Mannheim, April 17 - June 16, 1893, no. 95; acquired by Durand-Ruel as agent for Martin A. Ryerson [according to Ryerson's account with Durand-Ruel, copy in curatorial file, and list of his purchases at the Spitzer sale]; Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Detroit Institute of Arts, Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, 9 March – 11 May 1997, and the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 22 June – 31 August 1997, cat. 44 (entry by Richard Randall).

• Léon Palustre and Émile Molinier, La collection Spitzer, vol. I: Les ivoires, etc. (Paris, 1890), p. 47, no. 60.
• Raymond Koechlin, Les ivoires gothiques francais, vol. 2 (Paris, 1924), no. 208.
• Ian Wardropper and Lynn Springer Roberts, European Decorative Arts in The Art Institute of Chicago, (Chicago, 1991), pp. 11, 15, 16 (ill.).
• Richard H. Randall, Jr., The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections (Hudson Hills, 1993), pp. 56-57, no. 43, ill, and p. 97, under no. 122.
• Charles T. Little, "Gothic Ivory Carving in Germany: in Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. Peter Barnet, exh. cat. Detroit Institute of Arts, 1997), p. 86.
• Hartmut Krohm, "Die mittelalterlichen Elfenbeine" in Stadtmuseum Münster. Elfenbein, Alabaster und Porzellan aus der Sammlung des fürstbischöflichen Ministers Ferdinand von Plettenberg und der Freiherren von Ketteler (Kulturstiftung der Länder. Patrimonia 193) (Münster, 2001), pp.22, 24, 29, fig. f0.
• Christina Nielsen, ed. Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 2 (2004), pp. 10, 57.
• Jeremy Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, vol. 2, Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone, and Wood (Oxford, 2014), pp. 573-75, under nos. 167 and 168.
• Gothic Ivories Project, The Courtauld Institute of Arts <http://gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk/>

Triptych of the Virgin and Child with Saints

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Portrait of a Young Artist

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Holy Family

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Pietà

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Entombment

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Adoration of the Christ Child

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Portrait of Leonhard Fuchs

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Diptych of Saints Achatius, Barbara, Apollonia, and Sebald

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