About This Artwork

Belgium, Meuse River Valley

Virgin and Child, 1350–75

Ivory
H.16.8 cm (6 5/8 in. )
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1943.62

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Craftsmanship from Medieval Church Treasuries, 8 October – 30 November, 1942.

Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas Museum of Art, The Waning Middle Ages: An Exhibition of French and Netherlandish Art from 1350 to 1500, 1 November – 1 December 1969, cat. 69.

Publication History

Meyric R. Rogers, “Decorative Arts,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago: Report for the Year 1943, no. 38, 3 (1944), pp. 16–17.

Meyric R. Rogers and Oswald Goetz, Handbook to the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1945), p. 70, no. 49, pl. 22.

Richard H. Randall, Jr., The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), pp. 42-43, no. 20.

Gothic Ivories Project, The Courtauld Institute of Arts:
http://gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk/

Ownership History

Harry Fuld (d. 1932), Frankfurt, before 1932; by descent to his widow, Lucie Mayer-Fuld (née Cajzago), Berlin and later New York, 1932-1942 [ [according to copy of incoming shipping receipt]; sold to the Art Institute through Raphael Stora, New York, 1942 [according to incoming shipping receipt, mentioned above].