Lot Essay
This group of the Virgin and Child is after a carved wood group by the Ulm sculptor Daniel Mauch (d. 1540), known as the Berselius Madonna (illustrated in Stuttgart, Württembergischen Landesmuseum, Meisterwerke - Massenhaft, 11 May - 1 Aug. 1993, p. 414). Executed in circa 1529-35, the wood group is now housed in the Musée d’Art Réligieux, Liège.