These royal donors in prayer may have belonged to an altar or a tomb. Based on comparisons with contemporary portraits, the statuettes may portray Philip VI Valois (d. 1350); his second wife, Blanche of Navarre (d. 1398); and one of their sons, John the Good or Philip of France.
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Title:Prince, from a group of Donor Figures including a King, Queen, and Prince
Date:ca. 1350
Culture:French
Medium:Marble, traces of paint & gilding
Dimensions:Overall: 14 7/8 x 8 7/8 x 3 1/8 in. (37.8 x 22.5 x 7.9 cm)
Classification:Sculpture-Stone
Credit Line:Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Accession Number:17.190.392
[ Jacques Seligmann & Co., Paris (sold 1910)]; J. Pierpont Morgan (American), London and New York (1910–1913)
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Schwarz, Michael Viktor. Höfische Skulptur im 14. Jahrhundert: Entwicklungsphasen und Vermittlungswege im Vorfeld des Weichen Stils. Manuskripte zur Kunstwissenschaft in der Wernerschen Verlagsgesellschaft, Vol. 6. Worms: Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1986. pp. 36, 109–110, 156.
Schmidt, Gerhard. Gotische Bildwerke und ihre Meister. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1992. pp. 130–33, 314, fig. 135.
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Perkinson, Stephen. The Likeness of the King: A Prehistory of Portraiture in Late Medieval France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. p. 283, fig. 92.
Ciseri, Ilaria, ed. Gli avori del Museo nazionale del Bargello. Milan: Museo Nazionale del Bargello, 2018. p. 288.
Little, Charles T., and Miguel Ayres de Campos. The McCarthy Collection: Sculpture. Vol. IV. London: Ad Ilissvm, 2024. fig. 52. 1, p. 137.
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