The Virgin Mary
Germain Pilon
ca. 1585–90 · Gilt bronze · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
This figure comes from a Crucifixion group in which the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist would have flanked Christ on the Cross. The slender proportions and flowing drapery folds relate closely to Germain Pilon’s Mourning Virgin (ca. 1585), commissioned by Catherine de Médicis (1519–1589) for her funerary chapel at Saint-Denis.
- Artist
- Germain Pilon
- Date
- ca. 1585–90
- Medium
- Gilt bronze
- Culture
- French
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Lois and Anthony Blumka, in honor of Olga Raggio, 1998
