About This Artwork

French

Virgin and Child, 1375/1400

Wood, traces of gilt
24.6 x 9.2 cm (9 3/4 x 3 5/8 in.)
Buckingham Fund, 1957.454

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Parke-Bernet Galleries,

Art Institute of Chicago, “Annual Report 1957-1958,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 52, 3 (1958), p. 45 (ill.).

Dorothy Gillerman, ed., Gothic Sculpture in America, vol. 2: The Museums of the Midwest (Turnhout, Belgium, 2001), pp. 44-45, no. 33.

Ownership History

Blumka Gallery, New York, before 1947 [Brummer index card N6783 in the Cloisters Library and Archives, New York]; sold to Joseph Brummer, New York, 27 February 1947 [according to source cited above]; sold, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 12 May 1949, no. 411. Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, by 1957; sold to the Art Institute, 1957.