Focus on The Virgin and Child with St. Anne (van Steffeswert) and explore the Signed sculpture.
Van Steffesweert was one of the first woodcarvers in the Meuse region to sign his work, although not all his work is signed and the signatures vary ("IAN", "IAN VAN STEFFESWERT", "IAN VAN WEERD", "IAN BIELDESNIDER", etc). There are to date (2020) fourteen works signed by him, of which there are five in the Bonnefantemuseum. The signed sculpture of the Virgin and Child with St. Anne was acquired in 2005 from the parish church of Our Lady in Pey-Echt. It bears the name IAN and the date 151[1?] (last digit illegible). It is almost double the size (86.2 cm) of the unsigned version. In this sculpture, Mary's lower right arm is missing, so it is unclear what she was holding. In a very similar version of the sculpture in the church of Saint Gertrude in Tüddern, Germany (signed and dated 1513), she is holding a flower.
Tüddern Echt