Description
The Virgin hands the Christ child an apple which symbolizes the redemption of mankind after the original sin of Adam and Eve. The hollow metal figures were once attached to a wooden or metal throne.
Exhibitions
A Medieval Treasury: An Exhibition of Medieval Art from the Third to the Sixteenth Century. Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute- Museum of Art, Utica. 1968.
Provenance
Henri Daguerre (?), Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
