COLLECTION OF GOTHIC ART
Selected works spanning the Gothic, Renaissance, and Early Modern periods. We offer a curated selection of sculptures, statuary, medieval goldsmithery and reliefs, including Virgins and Child, representations of Christ, and various architectural elements such as Gothic columns, capitals, and corbels. Characterized by increased naturalism and fluidity of form compared to earlier Romanesque styles, Gothic sculpture reflects a transition toward a more humanized representation of sacred figures.
Important twisted column in white marble. A helical band chiseled by two lateral bands alternates with a spiral of fleurons. This column most likely comes from a cloister or a portal and finds its parallels in central Italy. This magnificence is indeed present in Tuscany, Lazio and Umbria in the 13th and 14th centuries. Our column is distinguished, however, from the works of the 14th century by a more rectilinear profile and an increased sobriety in its floral motifs, thus contrasting with the opulence of the columns of the portal of the cathedral of Orvieto (14th century). These characteristics allow us to date this work to the last third of the 13th century...
Gothic column Available
Large head of an apostle from Parisian workshops, end of the 13th century. The saint is portrayed as mature, with well-defined facial features, including marked cheekbones and deeply incised lines that convey a sense of age and wisdom. The beard and mustache fall into fine, well-delineated strands, while the hair is sculpted in thicker, undulating locks.
The austere expression and the treatment of the features suggest a focus on emphasizing the gravity and spiritual authority of the figure. Its stylistic characteristics and the use of Lutetian limestone allow it to be confidently placed within the corpus of Parisian Gothic sculpture from the end of the 13th century.
This sculpture demonstrates the enduring influence of Jean de Chelles and his contemporaries in the final decades of the 13th century.
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This Gothic sculpture depicts Saint John the Evangelist. It is distinguished by the finesse of its details, particularly in the treatment of the ample and fluid drapery, as well as in the wavy and curly hair of the saint, characteristic of the late Gothic style. Saint John is depicted holding a book, symbolizing his Gospel. His face, with delicate and meditative features, slightly idealized, reflects profound spirituality. This work, attributed to the Master of the Acker Altar (Meister des Acker-Altars), was exhibited at the Ulm Museum and bears an inventory number on its back corresponding to its loan. The sculpture displays the distinctive characteristics of this Master's chisel, including finely hollowed-out hair and a serene face, contrasting with the austerity of works by his contemporaries, Veit Stoss and Tilman Riemenschneider...
Gothic sculpture Available
Beautiful Virgin with the goldfinch in limestone, sculpted in the round with traces of polychromy. Mary holds in her hand the bird fed by the Child. Our sculpture shows traces of ocher and blue polychromy and gilding on the hair and the fleur-de-lis crown. The Virgin is draped in a mantle with significant lateral fall under the left arm, with beautiful folds heralding the end of the 14th century. The faces of the Virgin and the Child suggest a production from Ile-de-France...
Gothic Virgin Available
Important Virgin and Child in majesty. Mary holds Christ on her left knee. Hieratic face of the Virgin, still very much borrowed from Romanesque canons, framed by a short headdress. Our sculpture is distinguished by its important museum dimension and the confrontation of the two characters, the hieratic Virgin and the child, already belonging to the first Gothic of Ile de France. The very beautiful face of the child, the short headdress of the Virgin, her mantle with remains of red polychrome, pulled under the arm are all characteristics of this period of transition between Romanesque art and early Gothic art...
Enthroned Virgin Available
Important Catalan virgin from the 14th century in polychromed and gilded wood. Our sculpture is in an excellent state of conservation and has original polychromy. Our virgin is represented standing with a slight and elegant sway of her hips. The face with full, youthful features is framed by golden hair. The headdress, characteristic of the end of the 14th century, shows the use of starched canvas. The crown is old but undoubtedly later, as is the scepter pointing towards a representation of Mary. The Virgin's dress has diamond decorations common in Catalonia at the end of the 14th century, as do the filigrees of the headdress...
Gothic virgin Available
Pyxis in enamelled, engraved, chased and gilded champlevé copper. Blue, green and turquoise enamels. Our pyxis is composed of a cylindrical body and a conical lid topped with a cross. The body has alternating medallions decorated with asters and fleurons. The lid has the same decoration. The gilded fleurons are framed by scrolls and stand out against turquoise enamels. Limoges, mid-13th century...
Pyxis Limoges Available
A collection of two large limestone sculptures in the round representing Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The two apostles are depicted standing, each holding a book in their left hand. Beautiful clasps on both books. Elegant pleating of the coats. Slight swaying of the hips and straight knees forward. These two statues undoubtedly have the same origin and the same sculptor. The draperies and the treatment of the faces allow us to place these two sculptures in the 15th century...
Gothic statues Available
Beautiful bust of an apostle in a very emotional attitude. Our sculpture presents a still young apostle, with beautiful and gentle features. He applies his hand under his bifid beard, in a pensive and deep attitude. Note the hand with thin and long fingers, typical of the 13th century. Elongated face with high cheekbones, framed by wavy hair...
Gothic sculpture Reims Available
Beautiful and important triumphant Christ in lime wood with remains of polychromy. Christ has his head leaning on his right shoulder, his eyes half-closed and his mouth half open. The hair is combed into thin locks, falling on the shoulders. It wears a short perizonium, with V-shaped folds. The legs keep a relatively parallel position. The face is beautiful, the nose well defined. Our sculpture responds to the canons of the German Christs triumphant from the beginning of the 15th century. It still shows clear influences from the 14th century...
Polychrome Christ Available
Large Christ in gilded bronze. His head surrounded by a crown is slightly inclined on the right shoulder. The ribs are well marked, above a long perizonium. Beautiful face offering parallels with the Gothic ivories of Paris and eastern France. The plasticity of the face, the perizonium, the position of the legs lead us to date this Christ during the 14th century. A Very Close Christ was sold at Sotheby's in December 2000, during the sale of the Léopold Kolisch collection. ..
Gothic Bronze Christ Available
Handsome bearded face framed by curly hair emerging from the prophet's cap. This head is very expressive and shows a thoughtful man in age. This Gothic sculpture in the round can be compared to 14th century sculptures from the North of France, some coming from the disappeared cathedrals of Arras, Boulogne-sur-mer and Cambrai. A probable origin for this Gothic sculpture coming from a collection in the Saint-Omer region is the Saint-Bertin Abbey...
Gothic sculpture Available
Elegant Virgin and Child called Sedes Sapientiae. Mary holds the Christ standing on her left knee. Oval face of the Virgin, framed by a diademed headdress. Our sculpture is distinguished by the position of the two figures, looking to the side and by the attitude of Christ and the graceful movement of his robe. The clothes, hairstyles and facial features direct us towards a Mosan production from the end of the 13th century with stylistic influences from the court of Saint Louis...
Mosan sculpture Available
Rare wooden polychrome Virgin and Child from the Fenouillèdes region representing Virgo Lactans. Before this discovery, only 3 medieval nursing madonnas were known in the Pyrénées Orientales. Our Virgin is distinguished by the quality of its execution, the preservation of its polychromy and a known origin. Mary is seated on the throne with a gentle and mysterious air. The Child on his knees holds the Book on and raises the index and middle fingers of his right hand...
Gothic Virgin Available
Superb head of an apostle by an Italian master from the end of the 13th century or beginning of the 14th century. Beautiful wavy beard, almond eyes, well marked cheekbones...
Italian Old Master Available
Small marble head representing a bearded man in profile, an apostle or a prophet. This sculpture comes from the Joseph Altounian collection dispersed during the Artcurial sale of September 18, 2019. It bears on the reverse the typical label of the Joseph Altounian collections Ref: Annexe 622. Our sculpture has been cited as coming from the close circle of Giovanni Pisano. Without being able to affirm this attribution with certainty, our marble nevertheless belongs to the Tuscan school of the beginning of the 14th century, under the influence of sculptors such as Pisano or Giovanni di Balduccio. The comparison with the latter is interesting, Giovanni di Balducio produced capitals and funerary reliefs with representations very close to our marble. ..
Gothic Marble Sculpture Available
Large Saint Sebastian finely carved in alabaster. The saint is attached to a column surmounted by a capital, beautiful soft features and superb hair with long openwork and wavy locks. This statue was the object of a devotion as evidenced by the wear of the face and the accident on the nose...
Renaissance Alabaster Available
Important bust of Saint or Virgin of the Annunciation. Life size veiled woman. Full-featured face with almond-shaped eyes and large locks of curly wawy hair sticking out of the veil. Tiny traces of polychromy...
Lorraine gothic sculpture Sold
Large and beautiful Christ in champlevé and gilded enamel. Our Christ features glass eyes, a crowned head, and a long perizonium. Rare by its large size, it presents a good quality of execution and a good conservation.
Repoussé, enamelled and gilded copper work. Possible provenance: Grandmont Abbey (Haute-Vienne), first third of the 13th century...
Large Virgin of the Annunciation in polychrome wood. Our Virgin is represented in the phase of the Conturbatio, Mary expresses her amazement and is represented as a young girl with soft and resigned features. The long dress with a notched collar typical of the end of the 13th century has preserved magnificent blue and red decorations, applied directly to wood or to starched canvas, which is still well preserved...
Catalan Virgin Available
Large polychrome wooden statue representing a holy bishop carrying a crosier and making the sign of blessing. The sculpture stands out for the simplicity of its forms, the rigid technique of straight lines and the design of the face still reminiscent of the Romanesque style. The plasticity of the face, the folds of the dress, the rigidity of the forms lead us to place this work at the beginning of the Gothic period, in the 13th century, with Romanesque influences still present in the expressions and the posture. Our sculpture shows traces of polychromy and gilding...
Catalan Gothic Sculpture Available
Large Virgin and Child in oak from the end of the 13th century or beginning of the 14th century. The plasticity of the faces and of Christ evoke the 13th century (the face of the Virgin evokes the face of the Romanesque Sedes Sapientiae of Seron) while the drapes of the Virgin's dress herald the following century. Marie, with her beautiful oval face, is seated on a throne bench. Mosan Virgins are rarer in collections than the southern European ones.
Remains of polychromy and gilding. Hollowed back with hook closure...
Important head of an apostle statue. Long and antiquating features. Erosion due to long exposure to the elements observable on the hair. Limestone deposits. Exceptional sculpture, probably Paris, 13th century. ..
Apostel Gothic sculpture Available
Head of apostle or Christ in sculpted limestone. Elongated face with a large forehead and long hair with thick wavy locks on the sides
The almond-shaped eyes are underlined by the hemmed eyelids. Small modern plinth in reconstituted stone...
Beautiful Saint-Jean in oak wood carved from the Gothic period. Standing, his left leg bent, he is dressed in a dress tied at the waist with a belt and a coat with a chest strap. The clothes have loose, straight folds...
Gothic statue Sold
Altarpiece sculpted in half-round wood, polychromed and gilded.
Seated at his desk, he holds a stylus in his left hand and an inkwell in the other; elongated face, framed by long wavy hair, with eyes tapering towards the temples; he is dressed in a simple belted tunic and a coat, one side of which falls to the front of the knees. Hollow back...
Important and rare fragment of a Gothic tympanum. In a mandorla, angel under the arm of god, hand raised in the attitude of judgment. ..
Sculpture Available
Bust of a crowned madonna. Typical production of workshops in Lorraine or eastern France. Traces of polychromy. ..
Gothic virgin Available
Pilgrim figure in sculpted and polychromed limestone. He holds a calabash in his left hand. He probably held the pilgrim's staff in his missing right hand. Very beautiful face framed by a long and bifid beard. ..
Polychrome statue Available
Sculpted limestone bust of an angel with characteristic 14th century hairstyle and drapery...
Gothic Limestone Angel Available
Laureate and bearded head probably representing an emperor, Charlemagne or a Roman emperor. ..
Sculpture Available
Large central plaque of a cross with Corpus Christi in enamelled and gilded champlevé copper. Christ is depicted crowned and haloed, the crown decorated with diamonds, the eyes inlaid with glass beads. The hair falling on the shoulders and the beard are finely chiseled. He wears a long perizonium with oblique folds also chiseled. Cross with decoration of blue, yellow, green, turquoise, white and red enamels. This Gothic goldwork is characteristic of the Limoges workshops of the first third of the 13th century. Beautiful size and quality of execution with beautiful precision in the chiselling of the head...
Gothic Christ Sold
Large Saint John in sculpted linden, hollow back. South Germany, workshop of Niclaus Weckmann in Ulm towards the end of the 15th century. Our Saint John presents all the characteristics of the style of the master of Ulm: the expressive face with emaciated features, the delicately sculpted and openwork hair with its striated and wavy locks. The coat features fringe and pleats with characteristic crocheted appendages and triangle tips. The hollowed back also shows the mark of the master: the woodpecker hole digged at the back of the skull, characteristic of Weckmann...
Niklaus Weckmann Sold
Rare and beautiful column with carved mythical creatures in a floral backdrop mixed with geometric patterns. This beautiful column undoubtedly comes from a Gothic portal. The romanesque influence is still very noticeable. ..
Sculpture Sold
Very beautiful Virgin and Child in oak characteristic of the corpus of Ile de France workshops from the beginning of the 14th century, particularly illustrated by the work of ivory or monumental sculpture .
Our Virgin is a rare example of carved wood using these canons. Beautiful face of the Virgin with ample volumes on the drapes, elegance of the posture characteristic of these workshops...
Virgin of the Annunciation in sculpted limestone. Mid 15th century. ..
Gothic virgin Sold
Beautiful altarpiece element in polychrome limestone depicting the Entombment and depicting 6 characters surrounding Christ. Joseph of Arimathea and Mary are depicted at his bedside.
This piece is distinguished by the presence of 6 personages instead of the traditional 7, John beardless and seated is present, as well as Nicodemus, one of the 3 holy women (Marie Madeleine, Marie Salomé and Marie Cléophas) is absent from the scene. ...
Large crowned queen's head with trace of polychromy in half-bump. The crown features a fleur-de-lis and cabochons. The almond-shaped eyes are framed by well-marked eyelids with incised eyelashes. Youthful, oval face with full features characteristic of the late 14th and early 15th century Gothic period. The mouth is small with a nostalgic expression. The hair is represented in fine locks, without a veil. ..
Gothic Queen Sold
Bust of a saint in polychrome wood, hollow back. This bust can be compared to the reliquary busts of Saint Ursula and her companions known on the Middle Rhine in Cologne, as well as the opening virgins of the Upper Rhine. However, our sculpture retains the techniques in force in the 13th century, including the hollowed back, and a style different from the saints of the Middle Rhine. It must be placed in southern Germany in the 14th century...
Gothic virgin sculpture Sold
Crowned king's head with traces of polychromy. Former Joseph Laissus collection (1900-1969), engineer and president of the Société Jules Verne, Paris. ..
Gothic crowned king Sold
Important bas-relief representing a falconer. He holds in his raised right hand a typical lure from the 13th and 14th century. Stele seemingly unfinished in its lower part. ..
Sculpture Sold
Beautiful limestone apostle. Beautiful and very expressive bearded face with curly hair. He is dressed in antique style and in a dynamic posture that contrasts with the Gothic figurations of previous centuries...
Apostle Statue Sold
Important virgin with gothic child. A style still imbued with mysticism for this great virgin in limestone. Gilding and traces of polychromy. ..
Gothic virgin SoldGothic sculpture sees a profusion and diversification of media. Still austere for the first Gothic art, statuary knows an explosion of Marian worship with series of virgins and children. Architectural works remain with capitals, corbels and columns. The Ekinium gallery offers a series of religious and secular works from the gothique period.
