MADONNA AND CHILD Gothic, Austria or Switzerland, first half of the 15th century. According to tradition, from a church in the Weisstannental (SG).

MADONNA AND CHILD

Gothic, Austria or Switzerland, first half of the 15th century. According to tradition, from a church in the Weisstannental (SG).
Carved limewood, flattened at the back and polychrome painted. Later crown. With old SIK inventory number 13530.
H 65.5 cm.
Paintwork partly extensively reworked and restored. A few losses.

Provenance:
- A. Beck-Kuettel, Zurich, 28 November 1936 (according to a copy of the invoice).
- Swiss private collection, acquired from the above in 1935.
- By inheritance in the present Swiss private collection.

According to the invoice and an expert opinion by Dr Hans Lehmann (Zurich 1935), this Madonna came, “according to reliable information, from the small church in the Weisstannen Valley” (Canton of St Gallen). The figure was examined and minimally restored at the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA).