 Later it was in the possession of the wealthy Far-Eastern merchant, Louis Fidel Debruge-Dumenil, and when it was acquired by the Louvre in 1861, this was from the collection of Prince Pierre Soltykoff.The statue, forty-one cm high, represents the pinnacle of Gothic art, and the late medieval ideal of beauty.The Virgin Mary is portrayed as a young and slender woman; in appearance representative of the aristocracy of the age.