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Mourning Virgin with Saint John from an Entombment

15th century
Object PlaceLorraine (?), France
Medium/TechniqueLimestone with traces of polychromy
Dimensions73.5 x 30.8 x 25.4 cm (28 15/16 x 12 1/8 x 10 in.)
Credit LineHarriet Otis Cruft Fund
Accession number46.2
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSculpture
Collections
ProvenanceFerdinand Roybet (b. 1840 -d. 1920), Paris; November 19, 1920, Roybet sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, lot 62 [see note 1]. 1945, Gabriel Dereppe, New York; August 14, 1945, sold by Dereppe sold to the Brummer Gallery, New York (stock no. N6345); 1946, sold by Brummer to the MFA for $8000. (Accession Date: January 10, 1946)

NOTES:
[1] The Mourning Virgin and Saint John were sold as part of an Entombment group, which also included a recumbent Christ, a Holy Woman, Joseph of Aramithea, and two angels. The present whereabouts of these figures is unknown.
first half 15th century
about 1475–1500
end of 13th century
about 1415
third quarter of 14th century