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Bourg-en-Bresse
Ain
Rhône-Alpes

Place Neuve
(Co-cathedrale Notre Dame de l'Annonciation)

La Vierge à l'enfant

Saint Mary with child

The mother of Jesus Christ
(Wikipedia)

Antoine Coysevox
1854

Description

Stone statue of Saint Mary with Child above the entrance of the co-cathedral. The statue is a copy of the 18th century statue by Coysevox in the Église Saint-Nizier in Lyon.

Above the north side entrance is a console with a small statue of Saint Mary with Child - badly damaged, the child has almost completely disappeared.

Bourg-en-Bresse - La Vierge à l'enfant

Inscription(s)

mariae immaculatae
DEIPARAE
bvrgensis mdcccliv

Bourg-en-Bresse - La Vierge à l'enfant

Sculptor

Charles Antoine Coysevox (Lyon 1640 - 1720), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Co-cathédrale Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation de Bourg-en-Bresse.
Patrimoine(s) de l'Ain, Église Notre Dame à Bourg-en-Bresse.
Séverine Penlou, Rôles et fonctions de la sculpture religieuse à Lyon de 1850 à 1914 (thèse Lyon 2, 2008) (PDF on-line), cat. 716 (for the original statue in Lyon).

Locatie (N 46°12'20" - E 5°13'37") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frra285; Photograph: 17 August 2018
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