Spanish, late 15th century

The treatment to the Christ Child's hair together with the softer,simplistic folds of the drapery are indicative of a date in the second half of the fifteenth century. The previously stiff and more abstract  handling of the drapery changes with the  appearance of Netherlandish influences. The present figure with His oval face, small mouth and heavy lidded eyes is testimony to the stylistic mixture  which charaterizes this period   when late Gothic Spain witnesses the first influx of art from their Northern European province.