About the Artwork
Scenes from the Passion of Christ
late 13th century
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Italian
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Ivory, with traces of polychromy and metal mounts
Overall: 6 13/16 × 3 15/16 × 5/16 inches (17.3 × 10 × 0.8 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Robert H. Tannahill
42.138
Public Domain
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Provenance
possibly Treasury of the Laon Cathedral (Laon, France).(Michel Manzi, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, France);
December 15-16, 1919, sold by (Galerie Manzi, Joyant & Cie., Paris, France) lot 45;
(Jacques Seligman and Fils, Paris, France);
Maurice Sulzbach (Paris, France);
(Arnold Seligman, Rey and Co., New York, New York, USA);
by 1926, Robert Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1942-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Alexander, A. "Les Collections Manzi." Les Arts (1919): no. 177, p. 21 (ill.)
Koechlin, R. Les Ivories Gothique, vol. II. Paris, 1924, p. 116, no. 265 bis, B15.
Egbert, D.D. "North Italian Gothic Ivories." Art Studies 7 (1929): p. 189 (fig. 40).
The Waning of the Middle Ages. Exh. cat., Pomona College, Montgomery Art Center. Claremont, 1965, no. 27.
Le Trésor de Saint-Denis. Exh. cat., Musée du Louvre. Paris, 1991, p. 242 (fig. 1).
Randall, R.H., Jr. The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections. New York, 1993, p. 137.
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Italian, Scenes from the Passion of Christ, late 13th century, ivory, with traces of polychromy and metal mounts. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Robert H. Tannahill, 42.138.
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