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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1941.131
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Virgin and Child
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
figure, sculpture
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230242

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Walnut
Dimensions
44.4 x 13.5 x 12.4 cm (17 1/2 x 5 5/16 x 4 7/8 in.)
with base: 54.4 x 16.6 x 12.4 cm (21 7/16 x 6 9/16 x 4 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • exhibition label: bottom of base, paper, printed and handwritten: No. 417
  • label: bottom of sculpture, paper, black ink, handwritten: FELIX / WARBURG / [3686?]
  • label: bottom of sculpture, paper, black ink, printed and handwritten: [handwritten:] No. 53 / [printed:] PICTURE

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Felix M. Warburg, New York, NY (by 1927 - 1937) by descent; to his wife Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, New York, NY (1937 - 1941) gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1941.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Mr. Felix M. Warburg's birth
Accession Year
1941
Object Number
1941.131
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Loan Exhibition of Religious Art for the Benefit of The Basilique of the Sacre Coeur of Paris, exh. cat., Jacques Seligmann & Co. (New York, 1927), cat. no. XVIII, reproduced
  • Anita F. Moskowitz, Gothic Sculpture in America, I: The New England Museums, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman, Garland Publishing, Inc. (New York, 1989), no. 286 p. 382, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Loan Exhibition of Religious Art for the Benefit of the Basilique of the Sacre Coeur of Paris, Jacques Seligmann Galleries, 03/01/1927 - 04/01/1927
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Word's Fair, 1940, World's Fair, 1940, New York, 01/01/1940 - 12/31/1940
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Franconia College, 1964, Franconia College, 03/01/1964 - 03/31/1964

Verification Level

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