BZ.1912.2, Virgin and Child
Byzantine Collection, Dumbarton Oaks Museum
French (Île-de-France) Gothic, late thirteenth century
Wood with polychromy and gilding, 54.61 cm x 17.78 cm x 19.05 cm (21 1/2 in. x 7 in. x 7 1/2 in.)
Mildred Barnes Bliss and Robert Woods Bliss purchased this sculpture from the dealer Georges Demotte, Paris, on December 6, 1912.
Gary Vikan, Catalogue of the Sculpture in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection from the Ptolemaic to the Renaissance (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1995), 123–26, no. 45.