Simeon with the Christ Child

1250-1260 (Medieval)

4.9 cm 17.7 cm 2.2 cm

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This plaque, which may have been attached to an altar frontal (panel), was originally part of a scene of the Presentation in the Temple. According to the Gospel of Luke, the holy man Simeon was in the temple when the Christ Child was revealed to him as the Messiah, the savior...

Sculpture

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30605
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Léon Gruel, Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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1
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Gothic
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