Figures from a Retable of the Virgin and Child, with Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Apollonia, Saint Margaret of Antioch, and (possibly) Saint Mary Kleophas
c. 1440/1460
Artist

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G18
Artwork overview
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Medium
alabaster with traces of polychromy, in a modern tabernacle with four replaced canopies
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 100 × 50 cm (39 3/8 × 19 11/16 in.)
part of object (Virgin and Child): 62 × 19 × 6 cm (24 7/16 × 7 1/2 × 2 3/8 in.)
part of object (female Saints): 25 × 7 × 3 cm (9 13/16 × 2 3/4 × 1 3/16 in.) -
Accession
2014.60.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Commissioned by Diego Garcia de Moldes, for the chapel of Nuestra Señora del Campo at the family house, Castropol, Asturias, Spain;[1] consecrated 1461; by descent to, and mentioned in the 1641 will of, Pedro Garcia de Moldes y Castrillón; by descent in the family; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 December 2012, no. 13); (Sam Fogg Ltd., London); purchased 28 May 2014 by NGA.
[1] Diego Garcia de Moldes was a seafarer, and a senior member of Castropol's leading family. The name of the chapel translates to Our Lady of the Field.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1993
Origenes: Arte y cultura en Asturias. Siglos VII-XV, Catedral Metropolitana Basilica de San Salvador, Oviedo, Spain, 1993, no. 283, repro. of the Virgin and Child.
Bibliography
1999
Caso Fernández, Francisco de, and Pedro Paniagua Félix. El arte gótico en Asturias. Gijón, 1999: 198 (repro. of Virgin and Child), 199.
Franco Mata, Angela. El retablo Gótico de Cartagena y los alabastros ingleses en España. Cajamurcia, 1999: 57 fig. 14, 65, 72 n. 34, 106-107 figs. 114-117.
2013
Beer, Lloyd de and Naomi Speakman. "A Question of Style." Apollo 177 (May 2013): 66-71, repro.
2015
Luchs, Alison. “English, 15th Century, Figures from a Retable of the Virgin and Child.” National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 52 (Spring 2015): 32-33, repro.
2016
Marcos Vallaure, Emilio. “Una joya perdida del patrimonio cultural asturiano: el retablito inglés de alabastro del siglo XV de la capilla de Nuestra Señora del Campo de Castropol.” _ Anuario de la Sociedad protectora de la Balesquida_ 1 (2016): 105-121, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q63863534