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

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.

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

English 15th Century

c. 1440/1460

Accession Number

2014.60.1

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.)