Mourner

ca. 1450 (Late Medieval)

16.5 cm 44.5 cm 12.4 cm

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In a remarkable expression of realism, the artist conveys the "weight" of personal grief through the rhythmic interplay of heavy folds of drapery. The mourner's face is carved, but it would not have been visible to the contemporary viewer. In honoring the dead, funeral monumen...

Sculpture

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16689
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sculpture
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normalized
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provenance
Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1919, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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1
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Gothic
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