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Budapest, Szépművészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts)

Inv. 7373

Ivory

Height: 270mm
Width: 105mm
Depth: 80mm
Weight: 600g

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ seated on the Virgin's left arm; Christ in long robe; crown.

Museum's opinion 2010: French sculptor, c. 1300 or 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: left arm of Christ; crown of the Virgin partly broken.

Provenance
Stroganoff collection, Vienna. Collection of Ernő; Wittmann, Budapest; donation of Ernő; Wittmann to the Museum of Fine Arts of Budapest, in 1938.

Bibliography
S. Meller, 'Dr. Wittmann Ernő kisplasztikai gyűjteménye' [The Sculpture Collection of Ernő Wittmann...], in Magyar Művészet X (1934), p. 235.

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