id: 128833 accession number: 1951.450 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.450 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:20.819000 Triptych: The Life of the Virgin, c. 1325–1350. France, Lorraine?, or Austria?, Gothic period, 14th century. Ivory, traces of gilding; overall: 25.9 x 21.3 cm (10 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1951.450 title: Triptych: The Life of the Virgin title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1325–1350 creation date earliest: 1320 creation date latest: 1355 current location: 106C Medieval Treasury creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: France, Lorraine?, or Austria?, Gothic period, 14th century technique: ivory, traces of gilding department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Gothic type: Ivory find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 25.9 x 21.3 cm (10 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Gothic Art 1360-1440 opening date: 1963-08-06T04:00:00 Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963). title: When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story opening date: 1981-12-01T05:00:00 When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Collection of Count Scipio, Krakow (late 19th century) (Engraving no. 57, pl. III in sale catalogue or collection catalogue tbd) date: footnotes: citations: Boehm collection, Vienna. date: footnotes: citations: Prince of Liechtenstein, Vaduz date: footnotes: citations: Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc. New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art. date: ?-1951 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1951- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS HEFNER-ALTENECK, Jacob Heinrich von. Trachten, Kunstwerke Und Geräthschaften Vom Frühen Mittelalter Bis Ende Des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts. ... Zweite Vermehrte ... Auflage. 1879. page number: III (1882), pl. 169 url: Brunn [Brno] exhbition catalogue, 1884. page number: pl. 71 url: H. Semper, "Über eine besondere Gruppe elfenbeinerner Klappaltärchen des XIV Jahrhunderts", Zeitschrift für Christliche Kunst 11 (1898). page number: pp. 117-118 url: Koechlin, Raymond. Les ivoires gothiques français. Paris: A. Picard, 1924. page number: Vol. I, pp. 123, 203; II, no. 127 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 137 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n37 "Gothic Art 1360-1440." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963). page number: p. 174 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151960 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 65 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n89 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 65 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n89 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 72 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n92 Amato, Pietro. Tesori d'arte dei musei diocesani. Torino: U. Allemandi, 1986. page number: pp. 224-225 url: Randall, Richard H. The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993. page number: Cat. no. 40, p. 55 url: Barnet, Peter. Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age. Detroit, Mich: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1997. page number: Cat. No. 48, pp. 211-212 url: Gertsman, Elina. Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. page number: Mentioned & Reproduced: pp. 22-23 url: 'Gothic Ivories Project at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk' 2020 page number: url: http://www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk/images/ivory/25DC9379_b388803e.html --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.450/1951.450_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.450/1951.450_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.450/1951.450_full.tif