About This Artwork

French, Picardie

Standing Virgin, 1275/1300

Oak
85.1 cm (33 1/2 in.)
Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment, 1967.139

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1966–67 (Chicago, 1967), pp. 32, 33 (ill.).

Allen Wardwell, "A French Gothic Virgin of the Annunciation," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 4 (1969), pp. 7–13, figs. 1–3.

Dorothy Gillerman, ed., Gothic Sculpture in America, vol. 2: Museums of the Midwest (Turnhout, 2001), pp. 12–13, no. 8.

Ownership History

Édouard Aynard Lyon (d. 1913), before 1913 [see Wardwell 1969 and Gillerman 2001, p. 12]. Sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2-4 March 1913, lot 237. Edward R. Lubin, New York, before 1967 [according to copy of department catalogue card in curatorial file; see also Gillerman 2001, p. 12]; sold to the Art Institute, 1967.