Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: blue (lining of the Virgin's cloak), gold (partly-erased inscriptions along the hems; Koechlin described them as 'pseudo-Kufic inscriptions').

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
The head of the Virgin broke off and it was glued again on top.

Comments
This piece is considered to be a copy of a 13th-century statuette at the Musée Départemental des Antiquités de la Seine-Maritime in Rouen (Inv. 807). In 1893, the statuette was placed on a gilt bronze base decorated with a row of fleur-de-lys in a Renaissance style (Spitzer sale catalogue 1893).

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 74. Collection of Oscar Hainauer (b. 1840s?, d. 1894), Berlin (Inv. Eb. 6). In the Museo Lázaro Galdiano by 1949.

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 39 (E. Molinier).
W. Bode, Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer (Berlin, 1897), no. 135.
Ausstellung von Kunstwerken des Mittelalters und der Renaissance aus berliner Privatbesitz, veranstaltet von der kunstgeschichtlichen Gesellschaft, exhibition catalogue, Berlin, 20 May-3 July 1898, pl. XIV, no. 6.
E. Molinier, F. Marcou, L'Exposition rétrospective de l'Art français des origines à 1900 (Paris, 1900), p. 8 (mentioned as a replica of the Rouen statuette).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, p. 39, in relation to no. 91.
E. Camps Cazorla, Inventario del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (1949-1950, unpublished).
J. Camón Aznar, Guía abreviada del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (Madrid, 1951), p. 16.
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. 129-131, figs 1-3).