Virgin and Child

18th century H: 6 13/16 in. (17.3 cm) Citation Source image

The Virgin, holding the Christ Child in her left arm, stands on a crescent moon. The folds of her voluminous drapery accentuate the gesture of her raised hand and the gentle contraposto of her body. This statuette appears to be a late provincial adaptation of a 16th-century pr...

Artifact

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15574
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Léon Gruel, Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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1
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ivory

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