Standing Virgin and Child; Christ lying in the arms of the Virgin; Child pulling the front of the Virgin's cloak; Christ holding a fruit in his right hand; naked Christ.
Museum's opinion 2012: France, 15th- 16th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (clothes, hair).
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: feet of Christ; nose of the Virgin.
Hole in the back of Virgin's head. Vertical cracks.
Provenance
C. and E. Canessa, New York, Paris, and Naples; F. Kleinberger and Co., Inc; collection of Michael Friedsam (b. 1858, d. 1931), New York: Friedsam bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1931.
Bibliography
'Sculpture', in Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol. 27, No. 11, Part 2: The Michael Friedsam Collection (Nov. 1932), p. 54.
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