The Virgin Mary

Manner of Germain Pilon French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 544

This figure comes from a Crucifixion group in which the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist would have flanked Christ on the Cross. The slender proportions and flowing drapery folds relate closely to Germain Pilon’s Mourning Virgin (ca. 1585), commissioned by Catherine de Médicis (1519–1589) for her funerary chapel at Saint-Denis.

The Virgin Mary, Manner of Germain Pilon (French, Paris ca. 1525–1590 Paris), Gilt bronze, French

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