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Virgin and Child Attributed to Simon Bening in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2010

Virgin and Child Attributed to Simon Bening in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2010
Artist: Attributed to Simon Bening (Netherlandish, Ghent (?) 1483/84–1561 Bruges)

Title: Virgin and Child

Date: ca. 1520

Medium: Oil on wood

Dimensions: Overall 10 x 8 1/4 in. (25.4 x 21 cm), with added strip of 3/8 in. (1 cm) at top; painted surface 9 5/8 x 8 1/4 in. (24.4 x 21 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931

Accession Number: 32.100.53


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The motif of the "Virgin and Child" is taken directly from David's "Rest on the Flight into Egypt" (MMA, 49.7.21), but placed in a different context. Joseph is absent, and there is no overt reference to the journey of the Holy Family. Thus, in keeping with a contemporary trend toward the secularization of religious scenes, the image suggests an ordinary mother nurturing her child. Bening was a celebrated miniaturist and the landscape here is stylistically close to those in his documented works.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/europe...

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