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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Cast Courts, Room 46b, The Weston Cast Court

Virgin and child

Relief
1450s (sculpted), ca. 1869 (cast)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plaster cast of the Virgin and Child after marble original by Antonio Rossellino in the Pierport Morgan Library, New York.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleVirgin and child (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Plaster cast
Brief description
Plaster cast relief, Virgin and Child, after a marble original by Antonio Rossellino, cast ca. 1869
Physical description
Plaster cast of the Virgin and Child after marble original by Antonio Rossellino in the Pierport Morgan Library, New York.
Dimensions
  • Framed height: 101cm
  • Framed width: 73cm
  • Framed depth: 13cm
  • Framed weight: 38kg
Framed measurements taken on 18/11/2010 for Cast Courts project.
Object history
Acquired in 1869, further details of acquisition are not recorded
Historical context
There is a variation of this relief in brownish marble in the Victoria and Albert Museum, museum no. 108-1878, and there are versions in stucco in the Museo Nazionale (Bargello) in Florence, in the Musée du Louvre in Paris, in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and elsewhere.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
REPRO.1869-71

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Record createdDecember 7, 1999
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