Diptych with the Story of Salvation, anonymous, c. 1375
ivory, h 203mm × w 195mm Catalogue entry
Diptych with the Story of Salvation, anonymous, c. 1375
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Identification
Title(s)
Diptych with the Story of Salvation
Diptych with the Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, Crucifixion and the Last Judgement
Object type
Object number
BK-1992-28
Inscriptions / marks
- inscription, on the reverse of the right wing, in ink: ‘verus Possessor // Albergatus Ehlen // Prior Cartusiae // Trevirensis. // 1781.’ ([the] rightful owner [is] Albergatus Ehlen, prior of the Carthusians in Trier. 1781.)
- inscription, on the reverse of the left wing, in ink: ‘Quator eburnean // Imagines, dicuntur // opera Seculi 800mi’ (Four ivory images [of which] it is said [that they are] works from the 8th century)
Description
Diptiek van ivoor met gesneden voorstellingen in reliëf. Op de linkervleugel zijn de Kruisiging en de Geboorte van Christus, verbeeld, op de rechtervleugel het Laatste Oordeel en de Aanbidding der Koningen.
Creation
Material and Technique
Subject
What
- bystanders at the foot of the cross, among whom Mary, Mary Magdalene and John the Evangelist; Mary may be shown swooning
- Christ enthroned
- Virtues (holding instruments of the Passion) ~ hierarchy of angels
- Mary reclining in bed or on a couch, looking at the Christ-child
- annunciation of Christ's birth to the shepherds (and/or shepherdesses) at night; a host of singing angels in the air
- adoration of the kings: the Wise Men present their gifts to the Christ-child (gold, frankincense and myrrh)
- Mary and John the Baptist together with (e.g. kneeling before) the judging Christ, 'Deesis' ~ Last Judgement
Acquisition and rights
Credit line
- Gift of J.M. Neutelings-Heuts, Brasschaat
Acquisition
gift 1992
Copyright
Provenance
…; collection Albergatus Ehlen, prior of the Carthusians in Trier, 1781;{Inscription right wing of the diptych on the reverse.} …; Welschnonnenkloster, Trier, ?1801{Keuze uit recente schenkingen en legaten’, _Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum_ 40 (1992), pp. 290-323, esp. pp. 297-98.} (first recorded in 1868{E. Aus’m Weerth, _Kunstdenkmäler des christlichen Mittelalters in den Rheinlanden: Bildnerei_, Bonn 1868, no. 7 on p. 91 and pl. LVIII.}) ; …; collection Mgr Emile Schoolmeesters (1842-1914), Liège, by 1905;{M.G. Terme, _L’art ancien au pays de Liège: Album de l’Exposition universelle de Liège 1905_, exh. cat. Liège [1907], pl. XXXIII.} …; private collection, France;{‘Keuze uit recente schenkingen en legaten’, _Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum_ 40 (1992), pp. 290-323, esp. p. 298.} from the dealer Bernard Blondeel, Antwerp, acquired by Willem Neutelings (1916-1986), Brasschaat, 1981; his wife Jeanne Neutelings-Heuts, Brasschaat, 1986; by whom, donated to the museum, 1992
Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)
Relations
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Documentation
- 1100-1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, p. 56-57, cat.nr. 11
- 1100 - 1600, p. 56-57, cat.nr. 11
- Bonnefantenmuseum: Collectie Neutelings, Peter J. te Poel, p. 12-13, 44, 88, 94
- Een hogere werkelijkheid: Duitse en Franse beeldhouwkunst 1200-1600 uit het Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Frits Scholten (Frederikus Theodorus) , 1959-, p. 174, 175, cat.nr. 60
- Images in ivory: precious objects of the gothic age, Peter Barnet, p. 86, 104-105
- Een engel in de koffer, Hendrik Willem van 1938- Os, p. 27
- Gebed in schoonheid, Hendrik Willem van Os, p. 10-13,25,74,175
- Masterpieces of ivory from the Walters Art Gallery [Baltimore], Richard H. Randall (jr.), cat.nr. 310
- Das Schnütgen-Museum, Hermann Schnitzler
- Les ivoires gothiques français, Raymond Koechlin, cat.nr. 783
- Keuze uit recente schenkingen en legaten, p. 297-298, afb. 9
- Van giften, hun juridisch-fiscale vormgeving en van beloning voor vrijgevigheid, J.M. Bol
- E.G. Grimme, 'Neue Zugänge zu den Sammlungen des Suermondt-Muserum. Ein Französisches Elfenbeindyptichon des 14. Jahrhunderts', Aachener Kunstblätter 30 (1965), p. 8
- E. Aus'M Weerth, Kunstdenkmaeler des Christlichen Mittelalters in den Rheinlanden, Bonn 1866, pl. LVIII, nr. 7
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