Diptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ

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Diptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ

Place of OriginPossibly Paris, France

Dateabout 1365-1390

Dimensions9 7/8 × 10 3/8 × 3/8 in. (25.1 × 26.4 × 1 cm) (Opened)

MediumIvory, metal hinges

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1950.300

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Label TextElephant ivory was imported into Northern Europe as complete tusks. Craftsmen sliced these panels from the valuable interior dentine of the tusk, avoiding the hollow pulp cavity and dry exterior (cementum). Intricately carved with scenes from the Passion of Christ—from Jesus raising Lazarus and his entry into Jerusalem at upper left to his crucifixion at the lower right—the panels were hinged to function like a book for use in prayer.Published ReferencesLa Spitzer Collection, Paris, 1890, vol. 1, p. 50.

Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français, Paris, 1900, no. 125.

Koechlin, R., 'Quelques ateliers d'ivoiriers français aux XIII et XIVe siècles. III. L'atelier des diptyques de la Passion' (in Gazette des Beaux-Arts), 35,1906, pp. 49-62, repr. p. 49. Koechlin, Raymond, Ivoires Gothiques, Collection Emile Baboin, Lyons, 1912, no. 19.

Koechlin, Raymond, Les Ivoires Gothiques Français, Paris, 1924, I, pp. 286, 291, II, no. 792.

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The Toledo Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collections, Toledo, 1976, p. 24, repr.

Randall, Richard H., Jr., The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections, New York, 1993, p. 88, repr.

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Exhibition HistoryParis, Exposition Retrospective, 1900, no. 125.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Treasures from Medieval France, 1966, no. V 24, pp. 214, 246, repr. p. 214. (also listed in Summary).

Detroit Institute of Arts; Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, 1997, no. 32, pp. 175-178, repr. (col.).

Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Pious Journeys: Christian Devotional Art and Practice in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, 2001, no. 22, pp. 3, 5, fig. 1.