Where did this go?
The recorded provenance of this statue is limited. In 1893 this sculpture was in a private Paris collection. It left France in 1938 and was brought to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
However, the relic inside the glass tube may have traveled a lot. The relic, if it is from St. Macarius, originated from Egypt. When this saint died, his body was taken from his grave by the residents of his village of Shabsheer and was placed into a grand church in his honor. Eventually the saint's body was confiscated by Pope Michael V and returned to the Nitrian Desert before he split the body up to be made into many body part relics. Through the centuries, these body part relics could have been adopted into a collection or into the private possession of anyone in any of the Crusading areas around the Holy Land. At some point, the relic's owner wrapped it in a piece of fine cloth. The relic and cloth were inserted into this sculpture in France.