A PARCEL-GILT POLYCHROME WOOD FIGURE OF MARY MAGDALENE
POSSIBLY ALSACE, CIRCA 1500
with old paper label to side of base inscribed 'J40'
41 ¾ in. (106 cm.) high
A PARCEL-GILT POLYCHROME WOOD FIGURE OF MARY MAGDALENE
POSSIBLY ALSACE, CIRCA 1500
with old paper label to side of base inscribed 'J40'
41 ¾ in. (106 cm.) high
Collection Norbert Fischmann, Munich.
Collection Spengler.
Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main Liebighaus, where acquired 1954, by the grandfather of the present owner.
W. Pinder, Die Deutsche Plastik vom augehenden Mittelater bis zum Ende der Renaissance, Berlin Neubabelsberg, p. 321, ill. 296.
H. Wilm, Die gotische Holzfigur, Leipzig, 1923, ill. 105.
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