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A Northern French painted limestone group of the virgin and child, 15th century
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description
the crowned Virgin holding the Christ Child on her left arm and a bunch of grapes in her right hand, Christ holding the remains of a dove in His hands.
Provenance
Bresset, Paris
Literature
Jacqueline Boccador, Statuaire médiévale en France de 1400 à 1530, Zug, Les clefs du temps, 1974, 148-49.
Catalogue Note
In her study of French Gothic sculpture, Boccador (op.cit.) describes the "...tres belle harmonie..." which the sculptor of the present piece has created. The hair, parted in the middle in two thick waves, and the drapery are characteristic of the late medieval style of the pays de Valois or Haute-Normandie. The sculptors of northern France, sandwiched between the Paris basin and Flanders, were influenced by the ateliers of both regions. The thick, heavy pleats of the mantle and the carving resembling gemstones on the crown suggest a date from the later 15th century.