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| Keywords: French - The Virgin - Walters 44647B.jpg The half-length figure of the sorrowful Virgin is turned three-quarters to the left She is dressed in a blue mantle lined with violet which covers her head and a red robe The medallion is inset in the lower cover of a 20th-century gold-tooled morocco binding by Léon Gruel Paris which covers a 16th-century Flemish manuscript Walters W 425 On the upper cover the binder used a modern enameled medallion of Christ coped after a medallion attributed to Jean Limosin in the Schevitch Collection In the original arrangement the Virgin would have been contemplating the resurrected Christ according to the iconography of the theme Et prima vidit between 1600 1625 technique painted enamel copper cm 3 3 2 4 accession number 44 647B 80155 Peter Marié date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale New York 1903 lot 567 George H Richmond date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license Walters MS W425 Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Painted enamel art in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
