Maria mit Kind
The Virgin and Child
Rhenish, circa 1420
Standing contrapposto on a polygonal pedestal, holding the infant Christ on her left arm as she hands him some grapes. Clothed in flowing drapery gathered across her body and falling in folds from her left arm. Walnut, unpainted, carved in full round. Restored, signs of age. Height 132 cm. The sculpture corresponds in type and style to the "Schöne Madonnen" made in the Rhineland in the first third of the 15th Century: like the Schöne Madonna in St. Foilan, Aachen from circa 1430, reproduced in Suckale, Robert (ed.), Exhibition Catalogue. Schöne Madonnen am Rhein. LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn, 26 November 2009 to 25 April 2010, p. 83. Provenance: Neumeister, Munich, Auction 300, 1-2 July 1998, Lot number 1095.
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The Virgin and Child
Rhenish, circa 1420
Standing contrapposto on a polygonal pedestal, holding the infant Christ on her left arm as she hands him some grapes. Clothed in flowing drapery gathered across her body and falling in folds from her left arm. Walnut, unpainted, carved in full round. Restored, signs of age. Height 132 cm. The sculpture corresponds in type and style to the "Schöne Madonnen" made in the Rhineland in the first third of the 15th Century: like the Schöne Madonna in St. Foilan, Aachen from circa 1430, reproduced in Suckale, Robert (ed.), Exhibition Catalogue. Schöne Madonnen am Rhein. LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn, 26 November 2009 to 25 April 2010, p. 83. Provenance: Neumeister, Munich, Auction 300, 1-2 July 1998, Lot number 1095.
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