About This Artwork

French

Female Tomb Figure, c. 1350

Marble, basalt
189 x 54 x 30.5 cm (74 5/16 x 20 5/16 x 12 in.)
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1949.208

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Margaret Fish, “Sculptor of Lovely Gothic ‘French Queen’ Unknown,” Milwaukee Sentinel (September 18, 1958), sec. 1, p. 1.

Dorothy Gillerman, ed., Gothic Sculpture in America, vol. 2: The Museums of the Midwest (Turnhout, Belgium, 2001), pp. 20–21.

Ownership History

Joseph Brummer, New York, before 1947. Brummer Gallery, New York, after 1947 [according to copy of shipping receipt, 22 March 1949, in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1949.