The Virgin sits with lowered eyes while the Christ Child, standing between her knees, seems about to step away from her. In 1504 the Bruges cloth merchants Giovanni and Alessandro Mouscron bought it, and it became the first sculpture by Michelangelo to leave Italy in his lifetime. German troops took it in 1944; it was recovered from a salt mine at Altaussee.
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Mary's hand only loosely holds her son, and she does not look at him, as if she already knows where his steps will lead.
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