Inv. 2732
Saint Mary Magdalene with ointment pot.
Lisbon 1945: French, 14th-15th century.
Camps Cazorla 1949-1950: French, 15th century.
Camón Aznar 1951: Brussels, ca. 1500.
Estella 2001: 19th century, in the style of Flemish statuettes made in Brussels c. 1500.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy: blue (mantle), red (fleur-de-lys; dress; ointment pot).
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Part of the base broke and was glued back into place.
Comments
This piece is a copy of a wooden statuette made c. 1500 in Brussels and now in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (see Estella 2001).
Provenance
Lázaro collection, New York (by 1945).
Bibliography
Colecção Lázaro de Nova Iorque, exhibition catalogue, Lisbon, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, 1945, no. 72, p. 20.
E. Camps Cazorla, Inventario del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (1949-1950, unpublished).
J. Camón Aznar, Guía abreviada del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (Madrid, 1951), p. 23.
M. Estella, 'Los historicismos y sus consecuencias para el arte del siglo XX en el campo de la escultura: copias, réplicas y falsos', in El Arte español del siglo XX. Su perspectiva al final del milenio, X Jornadas de Arte (Madrid, 2001), pp. 125-143 (pp. 131-133, figs 6-7).
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