Carved Boxwood Statuette – Flanders 16th/17th Century

This delicate 23-centimeter sculpture represents a standing female figure with her hands open in prayer. This attitude is often that of the priest before the altar, but here it is that of the faithful praying to receive the divine. The headdress and the dress refer to an iconography that classifies our statuette in late Gothic art, a movement that lasted until the end of the 16th century and sometimes even spilled over into the 17th century in certain regions of Europe. The richness of its drapery as well as its excellent state of preservation make it a remarkable object of art. A symbol of devotion, it must have been placed in front of an altar. Was it part of a group of characters to form an altarpiece in which it would have embodied a noble believer in prayer or even a donor?
Height: 23 cm – 29 cm with the base