# Virgin and Child

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## Artwork

- Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, French](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-french-r2b942644e40f91>)
- Date: 1151-1200
- Technique: Oak with polychromy, height 79 cm

## Commentary

This sculpture of the enthroned Virgin probably served as an object of devotion on an altar. It has an abstract, formal nature with its rigid frontal poses, commanding facial expressions, and the calligraphic patterning of the crisply chiseled drapery folds.

## Related artworks

- [A Knight of the Golden Fleece](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-french-r2b942644e40f91/a-knight-of-the-golden-fleece-rc9217dd643b3e4>)
- [A Miracle of St Benedict](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-french-r2b942644e40f91/a-miracle-of-st-benedict-r57ff3484031307>)
- [Adam](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-french-r2b942644e40f91/adam-r4598de53f3d451>)
- [Allegory of the Vanity of Earthly Things](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-french-r2b942644e40f91/allegory-of-the-vanity-of-earthly-things-r5c7c418a12b483>)
- [Altar frontal: Christ and Angels](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-french-r2b942644e40f91/altar-frontal-christ-and-angels-r9ed365817bbf8d>)
- [Annunciation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-french-r2b942644e40f91/annunciation-r12cb1a959bcda9>)
- [Apostle \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-french-r2b942644e40f91/apostle-detail-r0801c08b7cf6a9>)
- [Apostle](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-french-r2b942644e40f91/apostle-r5480567086e510>)
- [Archangel Gabriel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-french-r2b942644e40f91/archangel-gabriel-rafb465693849f1>)
- [Book cover](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-french-r2b942644e40f91/book-cover-rb3ea7d54967df3>)
- [Book cover](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-french-r2b942644e40f91/book-cover-rea63f1d763a689>)
- [Bust of Cardinal Duprat](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-french-r2b942644e40f91/bust-of-cardinal-duprat-raee49d2b06b1e3>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)