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| Keywords: French - Kneeling Angel - Walters 441.jpg Originally this colorful angel was attached to a reliquary shrine or an altar frontal of which very few have survived intact He kneels in a pose of submission and reverence suggesting he was one of a pair of angels flanking the Virgin or Christ or the Archangel Gabriel from an Annunciation scene between 1220 1230 Medieval champlevé enamel on copper with gilding cm 7 9 7 4 1 1 accession number 44 1 30916 Clément-Simon Château de Bach Corrèze before 1890 by purchase Jacques Seligmann Paris by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1910 Arts of the Middle Ages Museum of Fine Arts Boston Boston 1940 place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Art of France in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
