The present sculpture is very typical of the objects produced in Tyrol in the 15th century and bears a strong resemblance to a separate work cited by Theodor Müller, believed to have also been made in Pusteral.1

Fig 1, Detail of the Inventory List from the Belvedere. Vienna.

This sculpture was formerly in the celebrated collects ion of Dr. Richard Oertel (fig. 1).

Dr. Oertel's collects ion focused on gothic German art, and objects formerly a part of this collects ion can now be found in the inventory of esteemed institutions, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession number: 1976.88) and the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich (accession number: 19/147).

1 T. Müller, Gotischeskulptur in Tirol, Bozen, 1976.