Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
16th century
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
Paris, Louvre Museum, Department of Decorative Arts
Object Number
OA 5614
Location
AGO, Gallery 135 Betty Ann & Fraser Elliott Gallery
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall Closed: 21.6mm × 21.6mm × 59.4mm (2.2 × 2.2 × 5.9 cm)
Description
Clothed cadaver opposite Judgement Day on first opening; Assumption of the Virgin on reverse of lid opposite shrouded cadaver; Hell on reverse of other lid opposite rotting cadaver
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved inscriptions in Renaissance capitals:
MEMORARE NOVISSIMA TVA ET [along one side]
IN ETERNVM NON PECCABIS [along other side]
OMNIA TEMPUS HABENT TEMPUS NASCENDI TEMPUS MORIENDI Ecclesi 3 [around figure in coffin]
GLORIA PATRI ET FILIO SPIRITUI SANCTO [around Assumption on reverse of lid]
MORITU[RUS] DOCTUS UT INDOCTUS ET IDEO TEDUIT [sic] ME VITAE MAEE Eccles. 2 [around cadaver in bottom of coffin]
PATER ABR[A]HA[M] MISERE MEI ET MITTE LAZARUM Luce [Luke 16:24 - around cadaver on inner cover]
[source: Molinier 1902, no. 64]
MEMORARE NOVISSIMA TVA ET [along one side]
IN ETERNVM NON PECCABIS [along other side]
OMNIA TEMPUS HABENT TEMPUS NASCENDI TEMPUS MORIENDI Ecclesi 3 [around figure in coffin]
GLORIA PATRI ET FILIO SPIRITUI SANCTO [around Assumption on reverse of lid]
MORITU[RUS] DOCTUS UT INDOCTUS ET IDEO TEDUIT [sic] ME VITAE MAEE Eccles. 2 [around cadaver in bottom of coffin]
PATER ABR[A]HA[M] MISERE MEI ET MITTE LAZARUM Luce [Luke 16:24 - around cadaver on inner cover]
[source: Molinier 1902, no. 64]
Published References
Emile Molinier, Donation de M. le Baron Adolphe de Rothschild (Paris 1902, 26-27, no. 64)
Provenance
Provenance
Baron Adolphe de Rothschild, Paris (1901)
Previous Owner(s)
Baron Adolphe de Rothschild