Anna Herself the Third, the group presenting St Anne, the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child, symbolises the earthly trinity and introduces the maternal family of Christ. St Anne is enthroned in the corpus of the altarpiece. The Virgin Mary, depicted as a young girl, is sitting on her left knee, wearing a crown as a reference to being the future mother of Christ. The figure of the Christ Child has not survived. Behind Anne, a nimbus is visible with a partial text: “SANCTA ANNA”; on the lower edge of the corpus, the words “Jhesus Anna Maria” are legible. The altarpiece, from the Pühalepa church on the island of Hiiumaa, was taken to Riga before the First World War, whence it reached the collections of the Art Museum of Estonia in 1922.
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