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Statuette of Female Saint
German (?)
Medieval (Gothic)
late 15th century
Object Place: Europe, Germany
Medium/Technique
Metal; Gilded Copper 9100% copper, traces of lead and tin)
Dimensions
8.6 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm (3 3/8 x 1 x 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund
Accession Number57.740
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsMetalwork
DescriptionStanding figure with halo attached by a rivet, roughly finished in the back. Cast, chased, and gilded. With a closed book in her left hand and her right hand raised with fingers curled to hold a staff, she stands in a slightly swayed frontal pose, gazing down. She wears a tight-fitting gown and, pulled over the wimple on her head, a mantle that falls under the left hand in deep angular folds and is held behind the right hand. The finely modeled face has full cheeks, deeply inset almond-shaped eyes, a small straight nose, and full mouth. The halo is decorated with a band of parallel hatching.
ProvenanceBy 1957, Mathais Komor, New York; 1957, sold by Komor to the MFA for $200. (Accession Date: December 12, 1957)