St Anne, The Virgin and Child
Statuette
1520-25 (made)
1520-25 (made)
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St Anne stands frontally, her right shoe protruding from under her mantle. She holds the young Virgin on her left arm and supports the naked Child, who holds an apple (or globe) with both hands, with her right. She wears a veil over a wimple, and a mantle which is drawn across her body and is gathered up under her left hand from which it falls in a tubular fold. The figure is carved in the round from one piece of wood and it probably formed part of a small devotional triptych. Although on acquisition, the authenticity of the present group was doubted, the style of carving is consistent throughout.
Object details
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| Title | St Anne, The Virgin and Child |
| Materials and techniques | Limewood |
| Brief description | Statuette, St Anne, The Virgin and Child and child, carved and painted wood, Daniel Mauch, Ulm (Germany), 16th century |
| Physical description | Group in limewood. St Anne stands, holding the Virgin on her left arm and supporting the Child who holds an apple (or globe) in both hands, with her right. The figure of the Virgin is only slightly larger than that of the Child. |
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| Object history | Given by Mrs Constance Goetze in memory of her husband Sigismund Goetze in 1940. Historical significance: From the workshop of Daniel Mauch. Mauch was born c. 1477 in Ulm, he died 1540 in Liege. He was a specialist in altarpieces. In 1529 he was granted permission by the city council to leave Ulm for five years. He left the city just before the establishment of Lutheranism in 1531, apparently because there were likely to be no further commissions for religious sculpture, and moved to Liege. |
| Historical context | The figure probably formed part of a devotional triptych. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | St Anne stands frontally, her right shoe protruding from under her mantle. She holds the young Virgin on her left arm and supports the naked Child, who holds an apple (or globe) with both hands, with her right. She wears a veil over a wimple, and a mantle which is drawn across her body and is gathered up under her left hand from which it falls in a tubular fold. The figure is carved in the round from one piece of wood and it probably formed part of a small devotional triptych. Although on acquisition, the authenticity of the present group was doubted, the style of carving is consistent throughout. |
| Bibliographic reference | Jopek, Norbert. German Sculpture 1430-1540. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London, 2002, cat. no. 36, p.86. |
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| Accession number | A.11-1940 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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