Lot 2126 Dα

Northern France ca. 1360/1380

A Northern French limestone figure of the Virgin with Child, circa 1360/1380.

Carved three-quarters in the round, the reverse flattened. Minor remains of former polychromy.. A finely carved figure of the crowned Virgin standing on a flat plinth, designed for a frontal and slightly lowered viewpoint. She carries the Child over Her left hip and probably originally held a sceptre in Her extended right hand. The Christ Child is depicted wrapped in a cloth and holding a dove and an open book in His hands. The Madonna stands with Her left foot extended and Her torso leant backwards in pronounced contrapposto. Her elegant pose is exaggerated by the drapery of Her cloak, which is drawn across Her body in a rich interplay of smoothly curving vertical and horizontal folds, which fall in softly undulating cascades to the sides.
The Virgin's right hand lost. Losses to the front of the plinth. The front right edge of the plinth, the lower edge of the front fold of drapery and part of the crown reattached. Wear with minor losses. Height 108 cm.