Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (patterns along the hem of the Virgin's cloak), blue (robe and inside the veil).

Reverse
Back pierced with an irregular hole, possibly for a dowel to set the statuette in a tabernacle.

Object Condition
Missing: object originally held by the Virgin (probably a stem of flowers); section of the base.
Break in the drapery falling from the sleeve at the left.

Provenance
Said to have been found in the church of Lagny-sur-Marne, near Meaux, c. 1860; private collection, Nancy. Bought by the Worcester Art Museum from Louis Carré, New York, in 1940.

Bibliography
Worcester Art Museum News Bulletin, 6, no. 3 (December 1940).
Art through Fifty Centuries (Worcester, 1948), p. 38, fig. 51.
Handbook (Worcester Art Museum, 1973), p. 47.
S. L. Faison, The Art Museums of New England (Boston, 1982), p. 347, fig. 294.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 24.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by P. Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, no. 48, pp. 211-212 (C. T. Little).