Page of Virgin and Child by UNKNOWN MASTER, Flemish in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European paintings and sculptures (1100-1850)

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Virgin and Child

1440-50
Alabaster, height 36,5 cm
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent

This alabaster sculpture has been badly damaged over the centuries, yet the surviving fragment still provides a clear impression of the broad and powerful way the sculptor handled the drapery - a typical feature of the 15th century. The study of works like this is not sufficiently advanced for us to be able to give a more specific localization than 'Southern Netherlands'.