At the turn of the 14th century, Paris stood out as a major artistic center, nourished by the presence of the royal court, the University and a network of prestigious patrons. Among the most representative works of this period, luxurious wood and ivory sculptures, designed for private devotion, stand out for their finesse and technicality. This very beautiful Christ is a perfect demonstration. Comparable by its anatomical realism, its features marked by pain and dignity, and by the refinement of its perizonium and its hair to the greatest masterpieces of Parisian ivory and goldsmithing produced around 1275-1300, it offers amateurs a rare and precious testimony to a production of luxurious small woods implemented in Parisian workshops during the reign of Philip the Fair, of which so few examples have reached us today.
