Standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a stem of flowers in her right hand; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand.
Museum's opinion 2012: Netherlands (Utrecht), mid 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the Virgin's head; some parts of the Virgin's robe around base.
Provenance
Convent of the Chaise-Dieu (Haute-Loire). Mrs Camille Lelong (Laurentine Françoise Bernage), Paris (before 1902); Henri S. De Souhami, Paris: sale, New York, The American Art Association, 1922, lot 17; P. le Filippo (in 1922); C. Filippo, New York (until 1936?). Bought thanks to the Rogers Fund in 1936.
Bibliography
W. H. Forsyth, Four Fifteenth-Century Sculptures showing Flemish Influence', in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin XXXII (1937), pp. 66-67.
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