Detail of the Nativity of the Virgin in the Cloisters, Sept. 2007

Nativity of the Virgin
Lindenwood and polychromy
Germany, Lower Franconia, ca. 1480
From a church at Ebern, Bavaria (Unterfranken), north of Bamberg

Accession # 56.211

An unusual subject for sculpture, the reclining St. Anne with the infant Virgin may have belonged to the predella under the central scene of a large altarpiece dedicated to the Virgin.

Text from the Cloisters label.