# Virgin and Child

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## Artwork

- Artist: [CALSTER, Maarten van](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/calster-maarten-van-r75fb20cd3a430e>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Stone

## Commentary

This sculpture is a 20th-century copy of the original wooden statue, now in the Museum Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen. This original, in turn, is a copy of a statue by the medieval sculptor André Beauneveu. This explain why this seventeenth-century statue has a Gothic feeling to it.

## Attribution

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