This Virgin and Child originally was joined by a seated Saint Anne, the Virgin’s mother, to form the Holy Kinship, a group representing three generations of the Holy Family. The scale of the group suggests that it comes from the lower section, or predella, of an altarpiece. Predella sculpture thematically expanded the subject of the main altar above it, which, in this case, may have been dedicated to the Virgin.
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Title:Virgin and Child
Artist:Master of Rabenden (German, active ca. 1500–1530)
Date:1510–15
Geography:Made in the Chiemgau, Upper Bavaria, Germany
Culture:German
Medium:Limewood with traces of polychromy
Dimensions:23 5/8 x 13 3/4 x 9 7/16in. (60 x 35 x 24cm)
Classification:Sculpture-Wood
Credit Line:The Cloisters Collection, 1987
Object Number:1987.15
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (1896–1965) ; Art market, Würzburg (in 1968) ; Art market, Munich (in 1970) ; [ Luigi Ronzoni, Galerie St. Raphael, Vienna (sold 1987)]
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Mirror of the Medieval World," March 9–June 1, 1999.
Graf, Hugo, Georg Hager, and Joseph Aloys Mayer. Allgemeine kulturgeschichtliche Sammlungen: Das Mittelalter. Kataloge des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums München 5, Vol. 2. Munich, 1896. no. 648, pp. 40–41.
Halm, Philipp Maria. "Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen." Der Meister von Rabenden und die Holzplastik des Chiemgaues 32 (1911). pp. 71, 72, 74, fig. 11.
Halm, Philipp Maria. Studien zur süddeutschen Plastik: Altbayern und Schwaben, Tirol und Salzburg. Vol. 2. Augsburg: Benno Filser & Co., 1927. pp. 54, 59, fig. 60.
Rohmeder, Jürgen. Der Meister des Hochaltars in Rabenden. Münchner kunsthistorische Abhandlungen 3. Munich: Schnell & Steiner, 1971. no. A19, p. 53, fig. 15.
Martin, Alastair Bradley, and William D. Wixom. "Curatorial Reports and Departmental Accessions." Annual Report of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 117 (July 1, 1986–June 30, 1987). p. 35.
Recent Acquisitions, 1986-1987 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) (1987). p. 18.
Wixom, William D. "Medieval Sculpture at The Cloisters." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 46, no. 3 (Winter 1988-1989). p. 24.
Didier, Robert. "Sculptures et retables des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux des années 1430-1460: Traditions et innovations pour le Haut-Rhin et l’Allemagne du Sud." In Le Retable d'Issenheim et la sculpture au nord des Alpes à la fin du Moyen Âge: Actes du colloque de Colmar (2-3 novembre 1987), edited by Christian Heck. Bulletin de la Société Schongauer, numéro spécial. Colmar: Musée d'Unterlinden, 1989. pp. 48–79, 53, 56, fig. 8.
Sainte Anne trinitaire: Une oeuvre de l'atelier du Maître de Rabenden. Colmar: Musée d'Unterlinden, 1990. pp. 30, 34, fig. 19.
Wixom, William D., ed. Mirror of the Medieval World. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. no. 284, pp. 223–24.
Wixom, William D. "Riemenschneider in America." In Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages, edited by Julien Chapuis. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1999. p. 158.
Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop (German, Wittenberg 1515–1586 Wittenberg)
ca. 1545–50
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