BURGUNDIAN, 15TH CENTURY

The facial type of the present Virgin, with her rounded face and delicate eyes, along with the long thick folds of drapery that crumple gently at her feet, find parallels in Burgundian sculpture of the second half of the 15th century. Although quite unusual, the depiction of the Christ Child - who seems to squirm to be free from his mother's arms - is also to be found in a polychrome stone group in the parish church of St. Philibert, Trouhaut, near Dijon (illustrated in Quarré, op. cit., fig. 29)