Lot 108
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AN ALABASTER GROUP OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD
AN ALABASTER GROUP OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD
AN ALABASTER GROUP OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD
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AN ALABASTER GROUP OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD

FRENCH, CIRCA 1520-1540

Details
AN ALABASTER GROUP OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD
FRENCH, CIRCA 1520-1540
alabaster with traces of polychromy, on a later marble base
19 ½ in. (49.5 cm.) high, overall
Provenance
The Collection of the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
J. Boccador, Statuaire médiévale en France de 1400 à 1530, Zug, 1974, vol. 2, p. 109-113, fig. 125-127.
M.-H. Delpeuch, "La sculpture troyenne du XVIe siècle en exil : essai de recensement" in La vie en Champagne, 1981, p. 11, no. 309, fig. 19.
Anciens et nouveaux : choix d'œuvres acquises par l'État ou avec sa participation de 1981 à 1985, exh. cat., Paris, 1985, p. 107, no. 35.
Le Beau XVIe. Chefs-d'oeuvre de la sculpture en Champagne, exh. cat., Troyes, 2009, p. 259-260, no. 29 and fig. 78; p. 275, no. 60, fig. 140.
B. de Chancel-Bardelot, P. Charron, P-G. Girault, J-M. Guillouët, ed., Tours 1500 : capitale des arts, exh. cat., Tours, 2012, pp. 227-228, no. 58.

Lot Essay

This interesting Virgin and Child is very similar to the one now in the Musée Dobrée in Nantes (inv. no. 985.1.1, see fig. 1). Geneviève Bresc-Bautier connects the group conserved in Nantes to the Loire Valley, but the shape of the faces and the features of the Virgin and Child in our group might suggest production in Champagne, and more specifically in the Troyes region, particularly when considering their eyes with the treatment of the Mary Magdalene in the Musée de Cluny (inv. no. Cl.1982 ), The Visitation from the Church of Saint-Jean in Troyes (see Le beau XVIe, exh. cat., p. 274, no. 60) or the Female Saint from the church of Génicourt-sur-Meuse (see Boccador, p. 111, fig. 125).

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