Description

CIRCLE OF THE BIBERACH MASTER
(UPPER SWABIA, ACTIVE C.1515-1525)
Virgin and Child (Virgo Lactans)
limewood, reliquary group; the reverse inscribed ‘329’, the underside inscribed ‘3-8527.’ and ‘7-6827’, and with two paper lablels iscribed ‘337’ and ‘I?.Nr./8527’
9 in. (23 cm.) high

Provenance

Benoit Oppenheim (1842-1931), Berlin, until at least 1907.
Jakob Goldschmidt (1882-1955), Berlin; until sold,
his sale; Helbing, Frankfurt, 23 June 1936, lot 41,
bought in the above sale by Johannes Hinrichsen who sold it to the Berlin State Museums that same year.
Restituted to the heirs of Jakob Goldschmidt in January 2023 by the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
S. Guillot de Suduiraut, Dévotion et séduction: Sculptures souabes des musées de France, vers 1460-1530, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2015. pp. 309-313.