Standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a bird in her right hand; Christ seated on left arm; Christ making a blessing gesture; Christ in long robe.
KIK/IRPA database (accessed in 2009): Paris, c. 1300-1310.
Museum's opinion 2013: Paris, c. 1300.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (hair).
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: left hand of Christ and part of his right hand (two blessing fingers); tip of the right foot of the Virgin. Holes to secure crowns now lost on the heads of the Virgin and of Christ.
Comments
The statuette was formerly kept in a small brass tabernacle designed by Baron Béthune and made by goldsmith Wilmotte of Liège.
Provenance
Acquired in 1925 for the collection of the Musée d'Art religieux et d'Art mosan, which became, in 2009, the Département d'Art religieux et d'Art mosan of the Grand Curtius in 2009.
Bibliography
De Madonna in de Kunst, exhibition catalogue, Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1954, no. 274.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].
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