Inv. 457/12
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge Glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin.
Angels holding navettes and swinging censers in the spandrels.
Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1979: France (Paris), 2nd third of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (hair, crown, along the hems, wings, columns), red (architectural details, mouths, lining of clothes), black (eyes).
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Missing: flower in the Virgin's hand.
Numerous vertical breaks indicating the panel has broken into several pieces which have been glued back together.
Provenance
Cologne, 2-7 December 1953, lot 241, pl. 17. Collection of Wilhelm Hack, Cologne; in the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum since 1979.
Bibliography
Große Kunst des Mittelalters aus Privatbesitz, ed. by H. Schnitzler, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen Museum, 1960, no. 26, pl. 20.
Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz, ed. by H. May, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Kunsthalle, 1968, no. D 84, fig. 47.
Sammlung Wilhelm Hack, exhibition catalogue, Düsseldorf, 1969, no. 16 (with ill.).
Kunst des Mittelalters, exhibition catalogue, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, 1979, no. 13 (with ill.).
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