Virgin as Queen of Heaven, between 1510 and 1525

  • English
  • German

Pot metal, white glass, vitreous paint, silver stain

  • 75 13/16 × 25 7/8 × 2 3/4 inches (192.5 × 65.7 × 7 cm)

Gift of Mrs. Edsel B. Ford

58.94

Inscribed, above Virgin's halo: REGINA.CELORVM.ORA.PRO

until 1799, Stoke Poges Manor (Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England)

Saint Giles Church (Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England)

Col. Shaw, Stoke Poges Manor (Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England)

May 16, 1929, Col. Shaw sale (Sotheby & Co., London, England), lot 49b

(Lionel Harris, Spanish Art Gallery, London, England)

1929, (French & Co., New York, New York, USA)

William Randolph Hearst [1863-1951] (New York, New York, USA)

August 16, 1943, Hearst sale (Gimbel Brothers, New York, New York, USA), no. 66-1 through 66-8 [bought in]

William Randolph, The Hearst Foundation (New York, New York, USA)

Eleanor Clay Ford

1958-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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possibly German; possibly English, Virgin as Queen of Heaven, between 1510 and 1525, pot metal, white glass, vitreous paint, silver stain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Edsel B. Ford, 58.94.