Virgin and Child

1. Octave Homberg (d. 1907), Paris [see Koechlin 1924]; by descent to his son, Octave Homberg, Paris [see source cited above]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3-5 June 1931, lot 128, to M. Brimo [see Times of London 1931]. Private collection, Paris, by 1947 [see Grodecki 1947]. Ernst and Marthe Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne, by 1964 [see Zurich 1964 exh. cat.]. Blumka Gallery, New York, by 1971; sold to the Art Institute, 1971.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 7 June – 2 August 1964, cat. S 31.
• Aachen, Suermondt-Museum, Mittelalterliche Elfenbein-und Emailkunst aus der Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, 1965, cat. S 31.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Medieval Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, 2 October 1985 – 5 January 1986, no. 9.
• Leningrad, State Hermitage Museum, and Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Medieval Art from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, May 10–July 10, 1990, August 14–October 14, 1990, no. 38.
• 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. 2.

• Raymond Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), vol. 2, p. 5, no. 11; vol. 3, no. 11 (ill. Plate IV bis).
• Times of London, "Homberg Collection: End of Paris Sale," Times of London (6 June 1931).
• Louis Grodecki, Ivoires français (Paris, 1947), p. 82, pl. 21.
• Hermann Schnitzler, Peter Bloch, Charles Ratton, and Fritz Volbach, Mittelalterliche Elfenbein-und Emailkunst aus der Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger (Düsseldorf, 1965), p. 17, no. S 31.
• Robert Suckale, Studien zu Stilbildung und Stilwandel der Madonnenstatuen der Ile-de-France zwischen 1230 und 1300, doctoral dissertation (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 1971), pp. 70-72, 86–87.
• Max Seidel, "Die Elfenbeinmadonna im Domschatz zu Pisa," Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz 16 (1972), pp. 28–29, 50, fig. 31 (reprinted and updated in Max Seidel, Arte italiana del Medioevo e del Rinascimento, vol. 2: Architettura e Scultura, Venice, 2003, pp. 368-69, 285 n. 73, 338, fig. 31).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1971–72 (Chicago, 1973), p. 44, inside front cover (ill.).
• William H. Monroe, "A French Gothic Ivory of the Virgin and Child," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 9 (1978), pp. 7–29.
• Charles T. Little, "Ivoires et art gothique," Revue de l'art 46 (1979). pp. 59, 66.
• Richard H. Randall, Jr., The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), pp. 16–17, 34, pl. 1, no. 1.
• Johannes Tripps, "Giovanni Pisano e l'influsso francese sulla scultura in Italia" in Il Gotico europeo in Italia, ed. Valentino Pace and Martina Bagnoli (Naples, 1994), pp. 142, 151, fig. 4.
• Danielle Gaborit-Chopin, "Gothic, VII: Ivories" in Dictionary of Art, vol. 13 (London, 1996), p. 172.

Head of an Apostle

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Panels from the High Altar of the Charterhouse of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les-Abbeville: The Ascension

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Panels from the High Altar of the Charterhouse of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les-Abbeville: Virgin and Child

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Panels from the High Altar of the Charterhouse of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les-Abbeville: The Last Supper

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Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ

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Panels from the High Altar of the Charterhouse of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les-Abbeville: Pentecost

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Panels from the High Altar of the Charterhouse of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les-Abbeville: Saint Hugh of Lincoln

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Archangel Michael Overcoming the Devil

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