Virgin and Child Seated on Clouds with St John the Baptist and an Angel, Jean Mone (follower of), , c. 1540

Title(s)

Virgin and Child Seated on Clouds with St John the Baptist and an Angel

Object type

• sculpture

Object number

BK-NM-7496

Artist

• sculptor: Jean Mone (follower of)

Place

Mechelen

Dating

c. 1540

Physical features

alabaster

Material

• alabaster (mineral)

Measurements

height 25 cm × width 32 cm (relief)
height 38.3 cm × width 37.7 cm × depth 9.7 cm (non-original frame)
weight 7 kg (total)

What

• Mary and the Christ-child with John the Baptist (as child) (+ angel(s))

Acquisition

transferred 1885

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Materia światła i ciała : alabaster w rzeźbie niderlandzkiej XVI-XVII wieku = Matter of light and flesh : alabaster in the Netherlandish sculpture of the 16th and 17th centuries, Jacek Kriegseisen, Aleksandra Lipinska, Jessica Taylor-Kucia, p. 172-175, cat.nr. I.20
• Die Mechelner Alabaster-Manufaktur des 16. und frühen 17. Jahrhunderts, Michael K. Wustrack, cat.nr. 513
• Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum [Amsterdam], Jaap Leeuwenberg, cat.nr. 179
• Handleiding tot de bezigtiging van het Koninklijk Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden op Mauritshuis, in 's Gravenhage, Reinier Pieter van de Kasteele, p. 139