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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR63.100
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Standing Madonna and Child
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1520
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany, Rhineland Palatinate
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/222604

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Wood
Dimensions
147.32 cm (58 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mrs. Gertrude T. Beyer, Mrs. Anastasia T. Dunau and Mrs. Margarete T. Munson in memory of Dr. Siegfried J. and Franziska Thannhauser
Accession Year
1963
Object Number
BR63.100
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Franz Wolter, Bayerische Plastik des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts: Beitrag zur Forschung und Geschichte, Festschrift des Münchner Altertums-Vereins zur Erinnerung an das 50 Jährige Jubiläum (Munich, Germany, 1914), pp. 29-98, pp. 65, 69, repr. p. 73 as fig. 73
  • Charles L. Kuhn, German and Netherlandish Sculpture, 1280-1800, the Harvard Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1965), no. 31 pp. 76-77, repr. as pl. XXIX
  • Anneliese Harding, German Sculpture in New England Museums, Goethe Institute (Boston, MA, 1972), repr. p. 50 as fig. 76
  • Anita F. Moskowitz, Gothic Sculpture in America, I: The New England Museums, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman, Garland Publishing, Inc. (New York, 1989), no. 166 pp. 205-206, repr.
  • Paul Williamson, [Review of "Gothic Sculpture in New England I"], The Burlington Magazine (June 1990), vol. CXXXII, no. 1047, pp. 418-419, p. 418, under no. 166

Exhibition History

  • Northern Renaissance Art: Selected Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/28/1984 - 04/08/1984

Verification Level

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