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Virgin and Child Blessing
Virgin and Child Blessing

Virgin and Child Blessing

late 15th century
Object PlaceVenice, Italy
Medium/TechniqueStone, with polychromy
DimensionsOverall: 105 x 90 x 12.7 cm, 233.6 kg (41 5/16 x 35 7/16 x 5 in., 515 lb.)
Framed (Rectangular pan shaped steel frame/ two security tabs): 104.5 x 85.7 x 16.5 cm (41 1/8 x 33 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession number17.1465
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSculpture
Collections
ProvenanceQuincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825 - d. 1908), Boston; 1917, gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 29, 1917)



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