French, Champagne, circa 1500

By repute the church of Nuits-sous-Ravières, Yonne
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., New York, before 1925
donated to The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1925-1985
sale, Christie's New York, 13 June 1985, lot 191

J. Breck, The Cloisters, A brief guide, New York, 1926, p. 38
J. Breck, "New Accessions at the Cloisters", Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, XXI, no. 5, May 1926, p. 118

General wear, surface abrasions and pitting. Restorations include: front of neck and to break above shoulders extending around her back, proper right hand and edges of drapery throughout including lower right section. Ointment jar and part of proper left hand restored and reattached. Traces of polychromy. Otherwise stable condition, fine quality carving particularly in hair and face.
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