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Date:: ca. 1130–40
Geography:: Made in present-day France
Culture:: Catalan
Medium:: Marble
Dimensions:: Overall: 18 x 7 1/2 x 18 in. (45.7 x 19.1 x 45.7 cm)
Classification:: Sculpture
Credit Line:: The Cloisters Collection, 1925
Accession Number:: 25.120.1070

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 007

Provenance

From the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, near Perpignan, France

George Grey Barnard American, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania 1863–1938 New York , New York (until 1925)
See also
What
Sculpture (24,354)

Marble (2,131)
Where
Europe (150,013)

Spain (3,749)

Catalonia (278)
When
A.D. 1000-1400 (7,082)
In the Museum
The Cloisters (2,300)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Iberian Peninsula, 1000–1400 A.D.

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