Statuette
ca. 1510-1520 (made)
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This limewood statuette, made in Upper Palatinate or Lower Bavaria in about 1510-1520, represents St. Anne and the Virgin. It is carved from two blocks, and it is highly likely that a figure of the Christ Child, now lost, was seated on the cushion.
Object details
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| Brief description | Statuette St Anne teaching the Virgin, wood polychrome. Upper Palatinate or Lower Bavarian, ca. 1510-20. |
| Physical description | Limewood statuette of St. Anne with the Virgin. St. Anne is seated on a bench, her head slightly inclined to the Virgin, her left hand rests on the Virgin's shoulder and with her right hand she turns the pages of an open book on a cushion on her left knee. The Virgin stands at St. Anne's knee, reaching with outstretched arms towards the book, her head turned to the onlooker. |
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| Summary | This limewood statuette, made in Upper Palatinate or Lower Bavaria in about 1510-1520, represents St. Anne and the Virgin. It is carved from two blocks, and it is highly likely that a figure of the Christ Child, now lost, was seated on the cushion. |
| Bibliographic reference | Jopek, Norbert. German Sculpture 1430-1540, A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London, 2002. cat. no. 54. pp. 120-121. |
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| Accession number | CIRC.77-1925 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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