Virgin by Joan Avesta in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2008

Joan Avesta (active about 1355-1390)
Virgin
Alabaster with traces of gilding and polychromy.
France, Carcassonne, about 1370-1390

Accession # 25.120.368 (?)

Found near the medieval fortified Languedoc town of Carcassonne, this precious figure of a Virgin- the child is lost- is the work of a documented local sculptor, Joan Avesta, who carved a number of important funerary monuments in southwest France and in Catalonia. He worked first in Toulouse, Carcassonne, and Belpech (Aude) and eventually at the cathedral of Gerona (Catalonia.)

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.