Virgin and Child

Estimated Value:

5.000 € - 7.000 €

Schätzpreis:

5.000 €

Description:

Cologne, ca. 1460/70
H. 36 cm
Walnut, worked in full-round. Mostly original polychromy with retouches, the flesh colours overpainted and renewed, rest. Signs of age. Standing figure of Mary, worked in one piece with a base, the infant Jesus sits on her right hand, in her left she holds a fruit. Clothed in an underdress and a rich cloak, the folds of which reach up to the back of her head. She has tilted her head slightly towards her child. Beautiful, detailed work. With exhibitin label from Antwerpen at the bottom.
Old Rhenish private Collection.
Expositions: "De Madonna in de Kunst" (La Madone dans l'Art), Antwerpen 1954, fig. 178; "Alte Kunst aus Kölner Privatbesitz" Kölnischer Kunstverein, No. 16 (without photo). Formerly Schnell Collection. For the present figure, cf. also a Madonna with child and a fruit in her hand in the Schnütgen Museum, another figure with a rich cloak (inscribed "In der Mantelfülle") from Utrecht, also in the Schnütgen Museum. Lit. cat. Spätgotische Skulpturen im Schnütgen-Museum, Cologne, 1970, fig. 6 and II.

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