Enthroned Virgin and Child

German

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 305

Combining qualities of sweetness and fragility, the popular theme of the “beautiful Madonna” was an appealing creation in central European art about 1400. This devotional statuette, carved in the later “soft style” of about 1420–40, may have adorned a domestic altar.

Enthroned Virgin and Child, Boxwood, polychromy and gilding, German

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Enthroned Virgin and Child, Boxwood, polychromy and gilding, German
Enthroned Virgin and Child, Boxwood, polychromy and gilding, German
Enthroned Virgin and Child, Boxwood, polychromy and gilding, German
Enthroned Virgin and Child, Boxwood, polychromy and gilding, German
Enthroned Virgin and Child, Boxwood, polychromy and gilding, German
Enthroned Virgin and Child, Boxwood, polychromy and gilding, German
Enthroned Virgin and Child, Boxwood, polychromy and gilding, German
Enthroned Virgin and Child, Boxwood, polychromy and gilding, German
Enthroned Virgin and Child, Boxwood, polychromy and gilding, German

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