recent ACQUISITIONS

This page lists the works that have been added to the museum’s collections in the past three years through various acquisitions. The Musée de Cluny would like to express its most sincere gratitude to its donors, and particularly the Friends of the museum society, as well as the Ministry of Culture.

2020

• Blessing Child Jesus from Malines
  Ronde bosse polychromed sculpture
  H. 32,5 cm
  Malines (Brabant), circa 1500
  Cl. 23936
  Purchase
  
  
• Interior of the palace of the thermal baths
  Victor-Jean Nicolle
  Watercolour
  H. 8,5 cm ; L. 13,5 cm
  Cl. 23937
  Gift
  
  
• Portal splay capital: The gift of the keys to Saint Peter
  Stone
  H. 32,5 cm ; L. 39 cm ; P. 40,7 cm
  3rd quarter of the 12th century
  Cl. 23938
  Gift
  
  
• Portal splay capital : The deliverance of Saint Peter
  Stone
  H. 34 cm ; L. 37-38 cm ; P. 37 cm
  3rd quarter of the 12th century
  Cl. 23939
  Gift
  
  
• Book of hours for the use of Rome
  Printed by Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre (bookseller)
  22 août 1498
  Cl. 23940
  Purchase

• Embroidered orphrey stripe :  saint Peter, saint Philip, saint Thomas or saint Matthias
  Spain, 1st half of the 15th century
  Cl. 23941
  Gift
  
  
• Chasuble with two orphreys 
  Spain, 2nd half of the 15th century
  Cl. 23942
  Gift
  
  
• Three embroidered fragments 
  Flandres, circa 1480
  Cl. 23943-1, Cl. 23943-2, Cl. 23943-3
  Purchase
  
  
• Three dalmatic panels
  End of the 15th century
  Cl. 23944-1, Cl. 23944-2, Cl. 23944-3
  Purchase
  
  
• Illuminated page : Woman praying 
  From the book of hours of Maître Collins
  H. 18,5 cm ; L. 12,5 cm
  circa 1450
  Cl. 23945
  Purchase

2019

• Chasuble with an orphrey stitched onto the front and a bordered cross on the back
  Velvet. Silk embroidery and metallic thread.
  H. 96; W. 54 cm
  Velvet: Italy, 15th century
  Embroidery: Cologne, 3rd quarter of the 15th century
  Cl. 23933 
  Donation
  
  
• Painting: Interior of the Palais des Thermes, Musée de Cluny
  Oil on canvas by François-Marius Borel,1886
  H. 72 W. 58 cm.
  1887 Salon, no. 293
  Cl. 23934
  Purchase
  
  
• Sculpture group of three apostles (Peter, John and James?), busts
  Sculpture from the predella of an altarpiece
  Walnut? Polychrome
  H. 43; W. 43 cm
  Southern Empire, Lower Rhine?
  First quarter of the 16th century 
  Cl. 23935
  Purchase at auction

2018

• Embroidered orphrey stripe
  Polychrome silk thread, spun gold, gold and silver thread on canvas backing
  H. 123; W. 22 cm
  Florence, last third of the 14th century, first third of the 15th century
  Cl. 23928
  Purchase
  
  
• Embroidered appliqué: Virgin and Child
  Polychrome silk thread, gold and silver thread on canvas backing
  H. 66; W. 26 cm
  Germany or Flanders
  Bears the embroidered date: 1451 or 1457
  Cl. 23929
  Purchase
  
  
• St. James the Less
  Ronde bosse sculpture
  Stone (limestone). Traces of polychrome
  H. 42 cm
  Attributed to Jean Crocq, Lorraine, circa 1500
  Cl. 23930
  Purchase
  
  
• Engraving tool, the top of which represents a lady holding a small dog
  Sculpted elephant ivory
  H. 10.7 cm
  France (Paris ), mid-14th century
  Label bearing the hand-written inscription in black ink: “Found in the Seine/at the foot of/the former Nesle’s Tower”
  Former collection of Victor Gay
  Cl. 23931
  Purchase
  
  
• Christ on the cross
  Christ in repoussé on champlevé, enameled and gilded copper, fixed onto a champlevé, enameled and gilded copper plate
  H. 30; W. 17.5 cm
  Limoges, early 13th century
  Former collections of Charles Mège, Auguste de Bastard d’Estang, Auguste Duthil
  Cl. 23932
  Donation

2017

• Painting by Jean Hey, known as the Master of Moulins: Virgin and Child with Four Angels circa 1495
  Painting on wood
  Cl. 23926
  Purchase thanks to an anonymous donor
  
  
• Case with engraved decoration
  13the century
  Ivory over a solid wood structure, copper alloy hinges
  Cl. 23924
  Donation from the Foundation La Marck
  
  
• Case with etched decoration
  circa 1500, France
  Iron, solid wood structure, xylography on paper
  Cl. 23925
  Donation from the Foundation La Marck
  
  
• Book of hours
  circa 1470, Troyes
  Cl. 23927
  Donation from Mrs. Diane Seynave