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Figures from a Retable of the Virgin and Child, with Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Apollonia, Saint Margaret of Antioch, and (possibly) Saint Mary Kleophas
English 15th Centuryc. 1440/1460
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Figures from a Retable of the Virgin and Child, with Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Apollonia, Saint Margaret of Antioch, and (possibly) Saint Mary Kleophas
- Creator: English 15th Century
- Date Created: c. 1440/1460
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 100 × 50 cm (39 3/8 × 19 11/16 in.) part of object (Virgin and Child): 62 × 19 × 6 cm (24 7/16 × 7 1/2 × 2 3/8 in.) part of object (female Saints): 25 × 7 × 3 cm (9 13/16 × 2 3/4 × 1 3/16 in.)
- Provenance: Commissioned by Diego Garcia de Moldes, for the chapel of Nuestra Señora del Campo at the family house, Castropol, Asturias, Spain;[1] consecrated 1461; by descent to, and mentioned in the 1641 will of, Pedro Garcia de Moldes y Castrillón; by descent in the family; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 December 2012, no. 13); (Sam Fogg Ltd., London); purchased 28 May 2014 by NGA. [1] Diego Garcia de Moldes was a seafarer, and a senior member of Castropol's leading family. The name of the chapel translates to Our Lady of the Field.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: alabaster with traces of polychromy, in a modern tabernacle with four replaced canopies
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