Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
early 16th century
Medium
boxwood with partial polychromy
Credit Line
Paris, Louvre Museum, Department of Decorative Arts
Object Number
OA 5609
Location
AGO, Gallery 136 Marvin Gelber Gallery
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall Closed: 51.3mm × 58.7mm (5.1 × 5.9 cm)
Overall Open: 105.1mm × 57.2mm × 109.8mm (10.5 × 5.7 × 11 cm)
Overall Open: 105.1mm × 57.2mm × 109.8mm (10.5 × 5.7 × 11 cm)
Description
Polyptych: Upper scene: God in his Glory; Lower scene: Last Judgement; left wing: martyrs and angels, right wing: confessors and angels
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Latin carved inscriptions around edges:
Judex Sapiens judicabit populum suum et principatus sensati stabilis erit. [upper outer]
Populi sic et ministri ejus et qualis rector est civitatis, tales inhabitantes in ea. [lower outer - from Eccles. 10:1-2]
Gloriosum est regnum in quo cum Cristo regnat omnes Sancti cincti [?] stolis albis sequuntur agnum quocunque... [upper inner]
Surgite vos mortui, venite ad judicium, venite vos benedicti et ite vos maledicti [lower inner]
In civitate Domini sonant jugiter organa Sanctorum ibi synamoni et balsami odor suavissimus cantica eorum [exterior of wings]
Exhultent justi in conspectu Dei. Delectentur in loeticia [interior left wing]
Justi autem in perpetuam [sic] vivent et [interior right wing]
[Dutch inscriptions on wings:]
Martelaers [left wing]
alle Confessoren [right wing]
[source: Molinier 1902]
Judex Sapiens judicabit populum suum et principatus sensati stabilis erit. [upper outer]
Populi sic et ministri ejus et qualis rector est civitatis, tales inhabitantes in ea. [lower outer - from Eccles. 10:1-2]
Gloriosum est regnum in quo cum Cristo regnat omnes Sancti cincti [?] stolis albis sequuntur agnum quocunque... [upper inner]
Surgite vos mortui, venite ad judicium, venite vos benedicti et ite vos maledicti [lower inner]
In civitate Domini sonant jugiter organa Sanctorum ibi synamoni et balsami odor suavissimus cantica eorum [exterior of wings]
Exhultent justi in conspectu Dei. Delectentur in loeticia [interior left wing]
Justi autem in perpetuam [sic] vivent et [interior right wing]
[Dutch inscriptions on wings:]
Martelaers [left wing]
alle Confessoren [right wing]
[source: Molinier 1902]
Published References
Emile Molinier, Donation de M. le Baron Adolphe de Rothschild (Paris 1902, 23-24, no. 59); Joseph Destrée, Noix de chapelet (Bulletin des Musées Royaux d’art et d’histoire, Jan 1930, 20—23)
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 23
Provenance
Provenance
Baron Adolphe de Rothschild, Paris (1901)
Previous Owner(s)
Baron Adolphe de Rothschild