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Virgin and Child in carved and polychromed wood. Standing, h…
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Virgin and Child in carved and polychromed wood. Standing, h…
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Lot no. 240
Description
Virgin and Child in carved and polychromed wood. Standing, holding the Child on her right arm, Mary is wearing a girdled dress and a cloak with wave-like folds.
17th century
H. 83 cm
(Provenance: collection of Mr James M***, New York, 1866
Two Amsterdam workshops are known to have produced small devotional paintings in gilded leather: the workshop of Marten and Willem van den Heuvel and that of Jacob Hamer.
It is difficult to attribute the production of this Crucifixion to one of the two workshops in particular, as both used the same models. Seventeen panels have now been referenced, a number of which are held in major museums: the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv n° W.8-1980), the Deutsches Ledermuseum in Offenbach am Main (inv n° 2524), the Colomer-Munmany collection in Victoria (Spain) (inv n° C812) ; Köpenick Castle in Berlin (inv no. K 9239b), the Episcopal Museum of Victoria (Spain) (inv no. 6045), the Musée national de la Renaissance d'Écouen (inv no. A15062 ), the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (inv no. BK 1994-1), the Museum of Leathercraft in Northampton, catalogue number unknown; and in a church in Somerset (letter from J.W. Waterer dated 27/02/1973, RP 79/2457).
Book consulted: Jean-Pierre Fournet, Cuirs Dorées, Cuirs de Cordoue , un Art Européen , Château de Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau: Éditions Monelle Hayot, 2019, p. 151, fig. 204a and b.
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