Lot 20
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A PARCEL-GILT POLYCHROME LIMEWOOD GROUP OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD
A PARCEL-GILT POLYCHROME LIMEWOOD GROUP OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD
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A PARCEL-GILT POLYCHROME LIMEWOOD GROUP OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD

AUSTRIAN, POSSIBLY SALZBURG, CIRCA 1425

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A PARCEL-GILT POLYCHROME LIMEWOOD GROUP OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD
AUSTRIAN, POSSIBLY SALZBURG, CIRCA 1425
The reverse hollowed out
46 ½ in. (108.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired before August 1974, by the father of the present owners, and by descent.
Literature
Dr Wolgang Hofstatter, 21 August 1974, no. 303 [private expertise].

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Europäische Kunst um 1400, 7 May - 31 July 1962, nos. 54-55.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Sculptures allemandes de la fin du Moyen Age, 22 Oct. 1991 - 20 Jan. 1992, S. Guillot de Suduiraut ed., nos. 2 and 4.

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Lot Essay

The voluminous drapery cascading down from each arm in zig-zag folds and the lively Christ child supported by the Virgin's left hand place this graceful work in a group of Schöne Madonnen that evolved from the court of the House of Luxembourg, the ruling family of Bohemia, and spread south to Austria and further afield. The positioning of the Christ child counterbalances the gentle contrapposto of the Virgin, seen in works in Austria, and often Salzburg, in the early fifteenth century.

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