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

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 18

Medium

alabaster with traces of polychromy, in a modern tabernacle with four replaced canopies

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.)

Credit Line

Florian Carr Fund

Accession Number

2014.60.1

Artists / Makers

English 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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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

Sam Fogg Ltd.

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.

1999: 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.