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LOT 0369
Medieval Oil Painting of Sorrowful Virgin
ARAGON, SPAIN, CIRCA 16TH CENTURY A.D.
28 in. (5.1 kg, 71 cm).
The weeping Virgin with her head bowed to the left and hands raised to her chest on a dotted gilt background, an expression of pain on her delicately formed face; wearing a white veil and a black long-sleeved robe, the veil arranged as a headdress and covering her hair; on wood and mounted in a later carved wooden architectural frame. [No Reserve]
Provenance
with Duran Arte y Subastas, 17 September 2015, lot 72.
Ex central London gallery.
Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11750-202070.
Literature
See Museo Nacional del Prado, Catálogo de las pinturas, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1985, p.634, for a painting of 'La Visitación', for similar style.
Footnotes
The painting represents the Virgin Mary Dolorosa or Our Lady of Seven Sorrows: a classic representation of the suffering experienced by the Virgin during the passion of Jesus Christ.
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