Carved. The reverse is somewhat finished.

The crown and a section of the base are missing. In addition, there are several small areas of damage.

…; sale Mr Désiré Böhm (1814-1891), Ypres (Van Dycke), 25 May 1875, no. 912, frs. 62, to the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague; transferred to the museum 1885

Object number: BK-NM-1298

Judging by the scapular in the Virgin’s right hand, this marble statuette can be identified as Our Lady of Mount Carmel, patron saint of the Carmelites and seamen. Her veil is adorned with a star carved in relief, perhaps in reference to her epithets: ‘star of the sea’ or the ‘shining star of Carmel’. In the nineteenth century, the present statuette was in the collection of the Belgian painter Désiré Böhm (1814-1891).¹¹Sale collection Mr Désiré Böhm (1814-1891), Ypres (Van Dycke), 25 May 1875, no. 912. While rather rudimentary and clumsy in execution, the work may be viewed as an early example of classicism, especially in the treatment of the drapery folds. It likely dates from around 1600, presumably carved in a provincial workshop in the Southern or Northern Netherlands.

Bieke van der Mark, 2024

J. Leeuwenberg with the assistance of W. Halsema-Kubes, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1973, no. 214

B. van der Mark, 2024, 'anonymous, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Northern or Southern Netherlands, c. 1600', in F. Scholten and B. van der Mark (eds.), European Sculpture in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20035639