UPPER RHINE, POSSIBLY BASEL, CIRCA 1520

The angular folds of the drapery combine the ideas of the virtuoso carver Master H.L with the older forms of the Basel tradition. This drapery, the facial type and the thick strands of hair, emanating out in waves from the side of the head relate to a figure of a female saint in the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (see E. Zimmermann, Die mittelalterlichen Bildwerke in Holz, Stein, Ton und Bronze. Mit ausgewählten Beispielen der Bauskulptur, Karlsruhe, 1985, no. 141).