BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
Property from a Private Collection, Ghent
GERMAN, FRANCONIA, EARLY 16TH CENTURY | VIRGIN AND CHILD ON A CRESCENT MOON
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July 9, 02:29 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from a Private Collection, Ghent
GERMAN, FRANCONIA, EARLY 16TH CENTURY
VIRGIN AND CHILD ON A CRESCENT MOON
limewood, with traces of polychromy, on a later wood base
figure: 94cm., 37in.
base: 3.5cm., 1⅜in.
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Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels, 14-15 March 1958, no. 545 (pl. 20);
Gustaaf Vanderhaegen, Ghent, acquired at the above;
thence by descent to the present owner
This group of the Virgin and Child on a crescent moon betrays the influence of the Franconian master sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider. The dynamic pose of the Christ Child, who appears to engage with an unseen interlocutor at the Virgin's proper left side, finds a parallel in a Virgin and Child attributed to Riemenschneider in the Church of St Martin in Euskirchen (Bildindex Foto Marburg, no. fmd10014590).