About the Artwork
Virgin and Child Enthroned
14th century
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French
French
Ivory, with traces of polychromy and gilding
Overall (including base): 11 1/2 × 5 3/4 × 3 1/8 inches (29.2 × 14.6 × 7.9 cm) Overall (without base): 10 1/8 × 4 1/8 × 1 1/2 inches (25.7 × 10.5 × 3.8 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
64.71
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
M.D. Schevitch (Paris, France)
April 4-7, 1906, sold by (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France) lot 150
Baron Robert de Rothschild (Paris, France)
(Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, New York, USA)
1964-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Moskowitz, A. "A Madonna and Child Statue: Reversing a Reattribution." Bulletin of the DIA 61, no. 4 (1984): pp. 34-47, p. 42 (fig. 13).
Randall, Jr., Richard H. The Golden Age of Ivory: Carvings in North American Collections. New York, 1993, no. 4, p. 35.
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French, Virgin and Child Enthroned, 14th century, ivory, with traces of polychromy and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 64.71.
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