EDUCATION OF THE VIRGIN

EDUCATION OF THE VIRGIN

 

ORIGIN : VAL DE LOIRE

PERIOD : Circa 1510-1520

 

Height :  110 cm

Width : 51 cm

Depth : 35 cm

    

 

 

Limestone

Good state of conservation. Some restorations have been done

 

 

Provenance : 

–     Former Collection Bresset ( Certificat by Edouard Bresset, dated 9th of june 1980 )

–     Former Collection Gournay – 1980

 

 

 

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Description

This beautiful limestone sculpture depicts a famous scene :  The Education of the Virgin. Standing, holding a closed book in her right hand, Saint Anne places her left hand on the hair of the Virgin Mary, represented as a child.

Sainte Anne is wearing a veil. She is wearing a dress with a flap neckline adorned with a fabula and belted with a pretty bow at the waist.  Delicately swaying, her right knee is bent. The fluid and supple folds of clothing follow the movement of the silhouette, drawing V-folds under her knee.  Saint Anne looks far ahead while the Virgin Mary seems to read calmly.