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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1028
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Virgin and Child with a Bird
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1350-1400
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France, Burgundy
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230046

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Limestone, micrite, with traces of poylchrome
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
115 x 39.3 x 24 cm (45 1/4 x 15 1/2 x 9 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Demotte, Inc., New York], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1028
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • [article on Christmas], Harvard Business School Bulletin (December 1958), repr. in b/w
  • "Gothic Sculpture in American Collections: The Checklist: I: The New England Museums", GESTA, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman (1980), vol. XIX, no. 2, no. 24, repr.
  • Anita F. Moskowitz, Gothic Sculpture in America, I: The New England Museums, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman, Garland Publishing, Inc. (New York, 1989), no. 99 p. 133, 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. 99

Verification Level

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