Inv. 457/11
Side 1: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge Glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Side 2: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Foliated decoration.
Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1979: French (Paris), c. 1330.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (wings, hair, beard, along the hems, crown), red (blood, details of the volute, flowers), brown (cross), green (lining of the clothes, flowers).
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Object Condition
Missing: part of the Virgin's robe; part of both arms of the crucified Christ (repaired); part of the left horizontal beam of the cross; vertical portion of the volute partly missing (repaired with ivory).
Volute broken at the foot of the Crucifixion Virgin.
Provenance
Bernheimer collection, Munich. Wilhelm Hack collection, Cologne; in the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum since 1979.
Bibliography
Engeldarstellungen aus zwei Jahrtausenden, exhibition catalogue, Recklinghausen, Kunsthalle, 1959, fig. 16.
Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz, ed. by H. May, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Kunsthalle, 1968, no. D 90.
Sammlung Wilhelm Hack, exhibition catalogue, Düsseldorf, 1969, no. 15 (with ill.).
Kunst des Mittelalters, exhibition catalogue, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, 1979, no. 12 (with ill.).
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