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Source Description
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."
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
80154
label
Christ
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
80154
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Christ
description
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
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.
date
modern (Renaissance)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
medallions
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
3.3
height
2.4
dimensionsRaw
H: 1 5/16 x W: 15/16 in. (3.3 x 2.4 cm)
Source extras
med
painted enamel on copper
creator_ids
15374
collection_ids
REN
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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714a8a914d6ecfba