Virgin

Joan Avesta Spanish

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 305

Found near the medieval fortified Languedoc town of Carcassonne, this figure of the Virgin—the Child is lost—is the work of a documented local sculptor, Joan Avesta, who carved a number of important funerary monuments in southwestern France and in Catalonia. He worked first in Toulouse, Carcassonne, and Belpech and eventually at the Cathedral of Gerona.

Virgin, Joan Avesta (Spanish, active Catalonia and southwest France, 1355–1390), Alabaster, traces of gilt, paint, French

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Virgin, Joan Avesta (Spanish, active Catalonia and southwest France, 1355–1390), Alabaster, traces of gilt, paint, French
Virgin, Joan Avesta (Spanish, active Catalonia and southwest France, 1355–1390), Alabaster, traces of gilt, paint, French
Virgin, Joan Avesta (Spanish, active Catalonia and southwest France, 1355–1390), Alabaster, traces of gilt, paint, French
Virgin, Joan Avesta (Spanish, active Catalonia and southwest France, 1355–1390), Alabaster, traces of gilt, paint, French
Virgin, Joan Avesta (Spanish, active Catalonia and southwest France, 1355–1390), Alabaster, traces of gilt, paint, French
Virgin, Joan Avesta (Spanish, active Catalonia and southwest France, 1355–1390), Alabaster, traces of gilt, paint, French
Virgin, Joan Avesta (Spanish, active Catalonia and southwest France, 1355–1390), Alabaster, traces of gilt, paint, French

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