Photographed at the Metropolitan by Richard Stracke The Urban Master of Hildesheim
Virgin, Child, St. Anne, and Emerentia

Circa 1515-30
Pine, polychromy, and gilding
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 16.32.208
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916

Emerentia, the mother of Anne, stands behind the other figures.  She is identified by the inscription (spelled "Emerantia") at the base of the sculpture. According to V. Nixon (Mary's Mother, p.152), this variation on the Anna Selbdritt is properly called an Anna Selbviert or Emerentia Selbviert.

More of St. Emerentia
More of St. Anne

Photographed at the Metropolitan by Richard Stracke