Virgin and Child, Crucifixion

1340-1350 (Medieval)

11.3 cm 24 cm

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Croziers, the staffs carried by bishops and abbots, are meant to identify them symbolically as shepherds of the Christian flock (actual shepherds use wooden sticks with a similar hook to catch straying sheep). Unusually, this crozier has two complementary images on its two sid...

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Frédéric Spitzer, Paris, by purchase; Sale, Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim, April 17, 1893, no. 92; Henry Walters, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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