Inv. Z 5
Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; bare-chested Christ; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; bench; crown; belt; bench.
Museum's opinion 2013: German (Cologne), c. 1850-1887.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: object held in the Virgin's right hand; part of the Virgin's crown.
Provenance
Collection of Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (b. 1811, d. 1886), Hannover; acquired by the city of Hannover in 1887.
Bibliography
Führer durch das Kestner-Museum, 2. Abt. Mittelalter und Neuzeit, ed. by C. Schuchhardt (Hannover, 1904), p. 107, no. Z 5.
Fälschung und Forschung, exhibition catalogue, Essen, Museum Folkwang and Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesit, October 1976-March 1977, no. 61.
GeaECHTet: Fälschungen und Originale aus dem Kestner-Museum, ed. by C. Caspers, exhibition catalogue, Hannover, Museum August Kestner, 2001, p. 14, fig. 14.
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