IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 126008 accession number: M.1-2006 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 5 September 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale orange-pink terracotta, modelled in the round except for a vertical area at the back which permits it to be attached to a wall or stand. The reverse is hollowed out behind the clouds. The graceful Madonna is seated on a bank of clouds with two winged cherub's heads emerging on her left and one on her right. Her right foot is extended slightly and rests on a serpent with a fruit in its mouth, above the crescent moon. She looks tenderly downwards towards the Christ Child who stands on clouds beside her, and places her right arm protectively behind him. Her left hand rests on her left knee. The lightly draped Christ Child stands on his left leg with his right bent at the knee and slightly raised. He holds out his left hand towards his mother, and has his right arm raised and bent at the elbow. object type: Terracotta, modelled in the round title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: The Duchess of Arenburg; her husband the Comte de Rivière; by descent to the Marquis de Rivière, late 19th century. Purchased at a Fair in Belgium in late 2004 by the vendor, Daniel Katz Ltd., 13 New Bond Street, London,W1S 4SX. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Boscawen Fund and a grant from the National Art Collections Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/126008 PEOPLE ------------------- Duchess of Arenburg Virgin Christ Child cherub SUBJECTS ------------------- cloud cloud TECHNIQUES ---------- terracotta, hand-modelled in the round at the top, and in high relief on the lower part hand-modelling CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1702 - 1702 creation date earliest: 1702 creation date latest: 1702 culture: 18th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Scheemaekers, Peeter I DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 70 dimension: Width units: cm value: 49.5 CITATIONS -------- The Fitzwilliam Museum Review 2004-2006 5705, Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Mueum, Peter Scheemaeckers 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