The Virgin and Child
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Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the sculpture
This statuette of the Virgin and Child is by an unknown artist from Germany dating from ca. 1550-1600.
The interior contains a cavity for keeping relics.
The Virgin is placed on a pedestal which contains scenes depicting the Temptation of Eve.
This seems to be a retrospective piece, made in the sixteenth century, but imitating the style of the early fifteenth century. The base is a copy of an early fifteenth century one now in the Cloisters collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It was probably intended for a Kunstkammer (cabinet of curiosity). Cabinets of Curiosities often included such works, recalling an earlier style.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 4440-1857
