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| Keywords: Coptic - Virgin and Child - Walters 71297 (2).jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Anonymous Coptic <br/> This unusually large ivory carving its shape corresponding to the shape of a tusk shows the Christ Child embracing his mother in a pose of tender intimacy It is one of the earliest examples of what in later Byzantine times was called Eleousa or Virgin of Tenderness The relief was likely to have been used for private devotion in either a monastic or domestic setting as an icon Greek for image Especially striking and typical of the early medieval period in Christian Egypt are the Virgin's large head fixed gaze and angular drapery century 7 8 Early Medieval ivory cm 26 1 12 4 5 accession number 71 297 6580 Cologne 1870s M -B Meyers Strasbourg 1877 by purchase Sale Hôtel Drouot Paris November 26 1877 Michel Boy Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Sale Hôtel Drouot Paris May 15 1905 no 240 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1905 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 Ivory The Sumptuous Art The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1983-1984 Déjà Vu Recurrence The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2007-2008 place of origin Egypt <gallery> File Coptic - Virgin and Child - Walters 71297 jpg </gallery> Walters Art Museum license Ancient Roman sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Coptic art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Statues of the Madonna and Child Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review | ||||
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