Currently not on view
Diptych: Saint George and the Dragon; Virgin and Child, with Saints John and Christopher,
ca. 1440–70
Netherlandish
y1956-136 a-b
This depiction of Saint George and the Dragon is based on a painting by Rogier van der Weyden (1399/1400-64) in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, making this one of the few ivories that can be convincingly identified as Netherlandish.;
Information
Title
Diptych: Saint George and the Dragon; Virgin and Child, with Saints John and Christopher
Dates
ca. 1440–70
Medium
Ivory
Dimensions
each panel: 7.7 x 4.8 x 0.6 cm (3 1/16 x 1 7/8 x 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Class of 1906, for the Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection
Object Number
y1956-136 a-b
Place Made
Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Materials
Subject
John Hunt Collection, Dublin (according to Courtauld Institute Census of Ivory Sculpture); Mathias Komor, New York; purchased in 1956 for Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection.
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- Robert A. Koch, "An ivory diptych from the waning Middle Ages", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 17, no. 2 (1958): p. 55-64., fig. 1, p. 56 (illus.)
- "The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr., Memorial Collection," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, vol. 36, no. 2 (1977): p. 24-32., p. 31
- Richard H. Randall, Jr., "Jan Van Eyck and the St. George ivories", Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 39 (1981): p. 39-48., p. 39ff; fig. 1
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 252 (illus.)
- Archer St. Clair, Elizabeth Parker McLachlan, The carver's art, Medieval sculpture in ivory, bone, and horn, (New Brunswick: Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1989)., cat. no. 76
- Richard Randall, The golden age of ivory: Gothic carvings in North American collections, (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993)., p. 46-47;p. 46 (illus.); no. 28
- Richard H. Randall, Jr., "Dutch ivories of the fifteenth century", Nederlands kunst-historisch jaarboek 45, no. 1 (1994): p. 126-139., p. 128; fig. 2
- Janetta Rebold Benton, Medieval monsters: dragons and fantastic creatures: Katonah Museum of Art, January 15-April 16, 1995, (Katonah, NY: Katonah Museum of Art, 1994). , p. 16; fig. 38
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Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and Virginia Roehrig Kaufmann, "Review of Reindert Falkenburg et al. (eds.), "Beelen in de late Middeleeuwen en Renaissance" Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 1994", Kunstchronik 49, no. 6 (jun., 1996): p. 251-256.
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Marina Belozerskaya, "Early Netherlandish diptychs as surrogate luxuries", in Essays in context: unfolding the Netherlandish diptych, ed. John Oliver Hand and Ron Spronk, (Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museums; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006).
, Black and White - Existing Negative - Stephan Kemperdick and Friso Lammertse, The road to Van Eyck, (Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2012).
