Christ
(Renaissance Europe )
This modern medallion is inset in the upper cover of a 20th-century gold-tooled morocco binding by Léon Gruel, Paris, which covers a 16th-century Flemish manuscript, Walters W.425. The medallion is a copy after one attributed to Jean Limosin in the Schevitch Collection.
On the lower cover of the manuscript the binder used an early 17th-century medallion of the sorrowful Virgin, executed by an anonymous French master.
In the original arrangement the Virgin would have been contemplating the resurrected Christ, according to the iconography of the theme, "Et prima vidit."
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Peter Marié [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, New York, 1903, lot 567; George H. Richmond [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
France, Limoges (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 1 5/16 x W: 15/16 in. (3.3 x 2.4 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
44.647A