Relief with Allegory Featuring a Mermaid and Shepherdess

ca. 1410-1440 (late Medieval)

130.2 cm 113.7 cm 30.5 cm

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This relief depicts a mermaid and a crowned shepherdess each holding a coat of arms. Around the mermaid, the words "Ave Maria" ("Hail Mary") are inscribed nine times. Around the shepherdess are grape vines. The coats of arms are likely those of the families of the husband and...

Sculpture

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[Chateau de Moyencourt near Compiègne] [photographs show the sculpture in place on the wall above the drawbridge]; Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, 1911 [mode of acquisition unknown] [removed from the Chateau]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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