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Mourning Virgin with Saint John from an Entombment
French (Lorraine?)
Medieval (Gothic)
15th century
Object Place: Europe, Lorraine (?), France
Medium/Technique
Limestone with traces of polychromy
Dimensions
73.5 x 30.8 x 25.4 cm (28 15/16 x 12 1/8 x 10 in.)
Credit Line
Harriet Otis Cruft Fund
Accession Number46.2
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSculpture
ProvenanceFerdinand Roybet (b. 1840 -d. 1920), Paris; November 19, 1920, Roybet sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, lot 62 [see note 1]. 1945, Gabriel Dereppe, New York; August 14, 1945, sold by Dereppe sold to the Brummer Gallery, New York (stock no. N6345); 1946, sold by Brummer to the MFA for $8000. (Accession Date: January 10, 1946)
NOTES:
[1] The Mourning Virgin and Saint John were sold as part of an Entombment group, which also included a recumbent Christ, a Holy Woman, Joseph of Aramithea, and two angels. The present whereabouts of these figures is unknown.
NOTES:
[1] The Mourning Virgin and Saint John were sold as part of an Entombment group, which also included a recumbent Christ, a Holy Woman, Joseph of Aramithea, and two angels. The present whereabouts of these figures is unknown.