Virgin and Child

1350/75

South Netherlandish or German; Rhineland

This ivory statuette with its gangly Christ Child and rather plain-faced Virgin seems far removed from the aristocratic figures produced in Paris, which was a great center for the production of Gothic ivories. The angular and somewhat earthy figures and the intensity of the connection between mother and child find parallels in other more monumental sculpture made in the Meuse valley, where present-day Belgium, Holland and Germany meet. This border region had a long and distinguished artistic tradition.

Status: On View, Gallery 236
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Netherlandish
Title: Virgin and Child
Place: Meuse (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1350–1375
Medium: Ivory
Dimensions: H.: 16.8 cm (6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1943.62
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Meyric R. Rogers, “Decorative Arts,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago: Report for the Year 1943, no. 38, 3 (1944), pp. 16–17.
Meyric R. Rogers and Oswald Goetz, Handbook to the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1945), p. 70, no. 49, pl. 22.
Richard H. Randall, Jr., The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), pp. 42-43, no. 20.
Gothic Ivories Project, The Courtauld Institute of Arts:
http://gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk/

Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Craftsmanship from Medieval Church Treasuries, 8 October – 30 November, 1942.
Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas Museum of Art, The Waning Middle Ages: An Exhibition of French and Netherlandish Art from 1350 to 1500, 1 November – 1 December 1969, cat. 69.
Art Institute of Chicago, Medieval Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, 2 October - 5 January, 1986.

Harry Fuld (d. 1932), Frankfurt; by descent to his widow, Lucie Mayer-Fuld (née Cajzago), Berlin and later New York, 1932 [according to incoming shipping receipt]; sold through Raphael Stora, New York, to the Art Institute, 1942.

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