Virgin and Child

1375/1400

French

On View: European Painting and Sculpture, Gallery 238

Title: Virgin and Child
Origin: French
Date: 1375–1400
Medium: Wood with traces of gilt
Dimensions: 24.1 × 9.2 cm (9 1/2 × 3 5/8 in.) Wt. 20 oz.
Credit Line: Buckingham Fund
Reference Number: 1957.454

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, ill.

Blumka Gallery, New York, by 1947 [Brummer index card N6783 in the Cloisters Library and Archives, New York]; sold to Joseph Brummer, New York, 27 February 1947 (died 1947) [according to source cited above]; his estate sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 11-14 May 1949, no. 411, as French, early XV century. Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, by 1957; sold to the Art Institute, 1957.

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