Sculpted in wood
Provenance: L.P. Bresset, Paris. 

The present Madonna Enthroned depicts the Virgin Mary as the Sedes Sapientiae, or Throne of Wisdom, a common iconographic type in Romanesque and early Gothic art.
Mary is shown seated frontally on a simple architectural throne, holding the Christ Child on her left knee, her right hand raised in a gesture of gentle presentation.
The composition preserves the vertical symmetry and solemnity characteristic of this type.

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