Standing Virgin and Child

ca. 1440

Not on view

In the early 1440s the sculptor Jakob Kaschauer was commissioned to create new statues for the high altar of the cathedral of Freising. These figures, preserved today in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich, include a striking figure of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ in an unusual diagonal pose in front of her body. This formulation soon became widely influential in southern Germany and Austria, where several statues with similar compositions were produced during the same decade. This example is among the earliest in the group and was likely produced by another artist with direct knowledge of the Freising altar. The crown and the lower portion of the statue, beginning just below the knees, are modern restorations copied after late medieval models.

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Title: Standing Virgin and Child
Artist: Circle of Jakob Kaschauer
Date: ca. 1440
Geography: Made in Tyrol, Austria
Culture: Austrian
Medium: Limewood with paint
Dimensions: Overall: 66 in. (167.6 cm)---without modern crown
Classification: Sculpture-Wood
Credit Line: The Cloisters Collection, 1962
Object Number: 62.169
Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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