Standing Virgin and Child in the Cloisters, October 2009

Standing Virgin and Child
Attributed to Niclaus Gerhaert von Leiden, active 1460-74
Probably Vienna, about 1470
Boxwood

Accession # 1996.14

Niclaus Gerhaert, a seminal artist of the generation preceding Albrecht Durer's, presumably was born in Leiden and was active in Strasbourg and Vienna, as well as several cities in between. Only three signed works are known and a mere four others, including this sculpture, have been seriously thought to be by Gerhaert's hand.

Text from the Cloisters label.