This life-size statue, which still retains traces of the painting and
gilding with which Gothic sculptures were almost invariably enriched, is
an important example of French Gothic sculpture. The monumental character
of this great art is shown in the conventional rendering of the hair, and
in the simplification of the modeling; its grace and naturalness in the
pose of the Divine Mother. The beautiful, rhythmic lines of the drapery
should be particularly noted. Representations of the Virgin in French XIV
century art have neither the austerity of earlier periods nor the
worldliness of later. They are characterized by charming sensibility and
tenderness.
[A Saint, Lindenwood. German, School of Ulm, about 1500]