Virgin of the Pillar

The statue of Notre-Dame de Paris, or the Virgin of the Pillar, is a stone statue that is the best known of the representations of the Virgin of the cathedral. Sculpted in the middle of the 14th century, it comes from the Saint-Aignan chapel located in the former Cloister of the Canons on the Île de la Cité. Transferred to Notre-Dame in 1818, it was first placed in the overmantel of the Portal of the Virgin to replace the the 13th century Virgin, which was destroyed in 1793.