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Virgin and Child
1350–75
- Medium
- Ivory
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- H.: 16.8 cm (6 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Meuse
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This ivory statuette with its gangly Christ Child and rather plain-faced Virgin seems far removed from the aristocratic figures produced in Paris, which was a great center for the production of Gothic ivories. The angular and somewhat earthy figures and the intensity of the connection between mother and child find parallels in other more monumental sculpture made in the Meuse valley, where present-day Belgium, Holland and Germany meet. This border region had a long and distinguished artistic tradition.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
