Keywords: French - Virgin and Child - Walters 7190.jpg The Virgin supports the standing Child who playfully pulls on her veil Their poses represent the Child taking his first step a warm natural subject popular in Swiss and German regions but less often portrayed in France The statuette has a flat back for attachment to a larger object such as a shrine or diptych two hinged panels between 1350 1360 Medieval ivory with traces of paint cm 16 2 6 5 2 2 accession number 71 90 8656 Léon Gruel Paris by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1914 A Medieval Treasury An Exhibition of Medieval Art from the Third to the Sixteenth Century Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art Cornell University Ithaca; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute- Museum of Art Utica 1968 Ivory The Sumptuous Art The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1983-1984 Images of Devotion Personal Piety in Medieval Manuscripts and Ivories The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1997 place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license Medieval ivory in the Walters Art Museum Art of France in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Sculptures of Madonna and Child |