Keywords: Netherlandish - Virgin and Child - Walters 5338.jpg Simple brass statuettes of the Virgin were cast in great numbers to ornament chandeliers and other household fixtures Their design was based on contemporary painted wooded statuettes Placed over a doorway such a figure would seem to bless the family's comings and goings ca 1520 Early Modern copper alloy cm 26 5 h accession number 53 38 22549 Henry Walters Baltimore 1926 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1926 The Allure of Bronze The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995 place of origin Netherlands Walters Art Museum license Renaissance sculpture in the Walters Art Museum Medieval art in the Walters Art Museum Art of the Netherlands Sculptures of Madonna and Child |