-Vierge à l’Enfant, Bois polychrome, Vers 1344, Innsbruck, Wilten, Basilika Maria Empfagnis
-Vierge en Majesté dite Vierge Pfonser, Tyrol, v. 1380, Innsbruck, Landesmuseum

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Stretching across the Alps, shared between Austria and Italy, the Tyrol region stands out in the medieval artistic landscape for its exceptional production of wood carvings, assimilating the influences of the Germanic tradition from the north and Italian ones from the south. While the latter is famous for its tremendous flowering at the end of the Gothic period, boosted by the support of Maximilian I and the Habsburg court, the production of the early period is less well known and there is little evidence of it. This precious Virgin and Child rediscovered by the Galerie Sismann is one of them. It reveals stylistic traits typical of 14th-century Tyrolean art, with its flowing drapery, the elegance of its veil and the singular features of its face and the original appearance of its tightly-curled hair. Several comparisons with some of the most famous Tyrolean works of the period date the work to around 1340. Our sculpture's elegant composition and beautiful polychromy make it one of the finest examples of this rare and sought-after corpus.