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Virgin and Child
(Renaissance Europe )
This carved piece is on a pedestal on the front of which is a cartouche beneath a crown. Both the Virgin ahd Child figures wear gilt metal crowns set with brilliants and lined with red velvet. The right hand of the Virgin and the left arm of the Child are broken and restored (?). This is a reduced copy of a miraculous marble statue at Trafani, Sicily.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Italy, Sicily (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 16 in. (40.7 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
27.391