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Walters Ms. W.699, Single leaf of the Virgin and Child

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Shelf mark

W.699


Manuscript

Single leaf of the Virgin and Child


Text title
Virgin and Child

Abstract

This Mughal miniature, dating to the early eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE, depicts the Virgin and Child after a European example. Its composition and use of grisaille are analogous to an image of the Virgin and Child depicted by the Mughal artist Manohar (Institut Néerlandis, Paris), which has been compared to works by the sixteenth-century Flemish artist Hieronymus Wierix. The painted borders probably date to the late thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.


Date

11th century AH / 17th CE


Origin

India


Form

Leaf


Genre

Historical


Language:

No linguistic content; Not applicable


Support material

Paper

Mounted on pasteboard


Extent

Foliation: Not applicable


Dimensions

18.4 cm wide by 26.9 cm high


Layout
  1. Image: 4.2 cm wide x 5.8 cm high

Contents:
fols. W.699a - W.699b:
  1. Title: Virgin and Child

Decoration:

fol. W.699a:

  1. W.699, fol. W.699a
  2. Title: Virgin and Child
  3. Form: Drawing with color wash

fol. W.699b:

  1. W.699, fol. W.699b
  2. Title: Virgin and Child (back)
  3. Form: Back

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest


Contributors

Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam

Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita

Editor: Bockrath, Diane

Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara


Publisher

The Walters Art Museum


License

Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.