Virgin and Child, between 1510 and 1520

  • Niklaus Weckmann, German, born 1450 or 1455, died after 1526

Lindenwood with polychromy and gilding

  • Overall: 39 1/2 × 13 1/2 × 6 3/4 inches (100.3 × 34.3 × 17.1 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

22.205

On View

  • European: Medieval, Level 2, Central

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

1922-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Valentiner, W. R. "New Period Rooms," Bulletin of the DIA 3, no. 4 (January 1923): p. 28 (ill.). Richardson, E.P. "A Madonna Statue by Jorg Syrlin The Younger." Bulletin of the DIA 15, no. 4 (1936): pp. 51-54; p. 51 (fig. 1). Richardson, E.P. "Three Late Gothic Sculptures." Art Quarterly 3, no. 4 (1940): pp. 341-342; p. 340 (fig. 2). The Detroit Institute of Arts, Paintings and Sculptures Illustrated: A Companion to the Catalogue. Detroit, 1943, p. 123 (ill.). Barnet, P. "Late Gothic Wood Sculptures from Ulm." Bulletin of the DIA 64, no. 4 (1989): pp. 28-39; p. 36 (fig. 13). Lichte, C. "Ein blühender Kunstbetrieb-Die Werkstatt des Niklaus Weckmann, Meisterwerke Massenhaft, Die Bildhauerwerkstatt des Niklaus Weckmann und die Malerei in Ulm um 1500. Stuttgart, 1993, p. 79 (fig. 76). Gillerman, D. Gothic Sculpture in America. Vol. II, The Museums of the Midwest. Turnhout, 2001, pp. 161-162; p. 161, no. 122 (ill.).

Niklaus Weckmann, Virgin and Child, between 1510 and 1520, lindenwood with polychromy and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 22.205.