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Virgin and Child
(Baroque Europe )
This crudely carved yet striking Virgin and Child has a receptable carved out in the back for a relic. The style suggests it may have been made in a Spanish colony, possibly in the New World. Cleaning in 2020 has revealed much more ornamentation than just the star on the Virgin's shoulder.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Mediterranean
(Place of Origin)
Spain (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 47 1/4 in. (120 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
Location in Museum
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
27.228