Triptych known as the "Saint-Sulpice-du-Tarn Triptych", Cl. 13101 © GrandPalaisRmn / Michel Urtado

Triptych known as the "Saint-Sulpice-du-Tarn Triptych", Cl. 13101 (detail) © GrandPalaisRmn / Michel Urtado

Triptych known as the "Saint-Sulpice-du-Tarn Triptych", Cl. 13101 (detail) © GrandPalaisRmn / Michel Urtado

Triptych known as the "Saint-Sulpice-du-Tarn Triptych", Cl. 13101 (detail) © GrandPalaisRmn / Michel Urtado

Triptych known as the "Saint-Sulpice-du-Tarn Triptych", Cl. 13101 (detail) © GrandPalaisRmn / Michel Urtado

Triptych known as the "Saint-Sulpice-du-Tarn Triptych", Cl. 13101 (detail) © GrandPalaisRmn / Michel Urtado

Triptych known as the "Saint-Sulpice-du-Tarn Triptych", Cl. 13101 (detail) © GrandPalaisRmn / Michel Urtado

Triptych known as the "Saint-Sulpice-du-Tarn Triptych"

Description

On display - room 10

13th century

High Middle Ages

A masterpiece of the art of Parisian ivory carvers, this triptych with movable shutters combines the balance of compositions, the monumentality of the figures on the central plate, standing out quasi in the round in a thick ivory plaque, and the science of bas-relief in the sculpture of the shutters.

The Passion and the Childhood of Christ are depicted in five scenes across two registers. In the centre of the lower register, the Virgin Mary (who once held the Child) is surrounded by two angels.
 

From one artwork to another

Head of the king of Judah No. 6, Notre-Dame de Paris, Cl. 22988 © GrandPalaisRmn / René-Gabriel Ojeda

Heads of the kings of Judah

First half of the 13th century