The Virgin and Child
sculptor
Unknown
Dateabout 1350
Place MadeScandinavia, Europe
MediumWhale ivory
Dimensions12.1 cm (4 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberS27w28
eMuseum ID724475
EmbARK ObjectID12628
Original Numbernone, left of M27w27 (I&N)
TMS Source ID1697
Last Updated8/14/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotes“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 9, no. 38 (22 May 1966), p. 2. (as dated 15th century)
Kristin A. Mortimer. "Report of the Curator." Fenway Court (1985), p. 71, ill.
Richard H. Randall, Jr. The Golden Age of Ivory (New York, 1993), p. 41, cat. 19. ill. (as Scandinavian, as a chess piece; dated mid 14th century)
Gothic Ivories Project at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, accessed 2015, ill. www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), pp. 93-94, fig. 46.
Kristin A. Mortimer. "Report of the Curator." Fenway Court (1985), p. 71, ill.
Richard H. Randall, Jr. The Golden Age of Ivory (New York, 1993), p. 41, cat. 19. ill. (as Scandinavian, as a chess piece; dated mid 14th century)
Gothic Ivories Project at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, accessed 2015, ill. www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), pp. 93-94, fig. 46.
ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the collector Émile Peyre (1828-1904), Paris for 1,346 francs in 1897, probably through her regular agent in Paris Fernand Robert.
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