Fragment of an Altarpiece with the Betrayal of Christ and the Suicide of Judas

1300/1325

French, Normandy

Status: On View, Gallery 237
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Title: Fragment of an Altarpiece with the Betrayal of Christ and the Suicide of Judas
Place: Northern France (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1300–1325
Medium: Limestone
Dimensions: 45.7 × 50.2 cm (18 × 19 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. René Gimpel
Reference Number: 1924.1051
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“A French Gothic Relief” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 19, no. 2 (1925), p. 23, ill on cover.
Meyric R. Rogers and Oswald Goetz, Handbook of the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection (Chicago, 1945), p. 62, no. 8, pl. IX.
Hartmut Krohm, “Die Skulptur der Querhausfassaden an der Kathedrale von Rouen,” Aachener Kunstblätter, 40 (1971), p. 133, fig. 92.
Peter Brieger and Philippe Verdier, Art and the Courts: France and England from 1259 to 1328, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1972, p. 150, under no. 66
Dorothy Gillerman, “‘The Arrest of Christ’: A Gothic Relief in the Metropolian Museum of Art,” Metropolitan Museum Journal 15 (1981), p. 85, fig. 24.
Harvey Stahl, “Narrative Structure and Content in Some Gothic Ivories of the Life of Christ” in Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. Peter Barnet, exh. cat. Detroit Institute of Arts, 1997), pp. 98, 113 n. 14.
Dorothy Gillerman, Gothic Sculpture in America, vol. 2: Museums of the Midwest (New York, 2001), pp. 14-15, ill.
Pierre-Yves Le Pogam, Les premiers retables (XIIe-début du XVe siècle). Une mise en scène du sacré, exhib. cat., Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2009, p. 213, no. 39, ill.

Providence, Rhode Island, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Transformations of the Court Style: Gothic Art in Europe 1270 to 1330, February 2-February 27, 1977, no. 4.

René Gimpel, Paris, by 1924; given by him to the Art Institute, 1924 [incoming receipt dated October 9, 1924 in Registrar’s office].

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