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Pleureur

Formerly attributed to: Sluter
French (Dijon)
about 1440
Object Place: Europe, Dijon, France

Medium/Technique Stone
Dimensions 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line 1948 Purchase Fund
Accession Number48.260
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSculpture

DescriptionAlabaster or marble. Full round figure, left hand on chest, right holds robes to bowed & hooded head.
Provenance1943, Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (b. 1867 - d. 1944), New York; April 29, 1943, sold by Stokes to the Brummer Gallery (stock no. N5451), New York; 1948, sold by Brummer to the MFA for $100. (Accession Date: March 11, 1948)