The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Christ Child Pressing the Wine of the Eucharist

The Christ Child Pressing the Wine of the Eucharist

Date:: ca. 1500
Culture:: South Netherlandish
Medium:: Linen warp; wool, silk, and gilt weft yarns
Dimensions:: Overall: 19 7/8 x 18 1/4in. (50.5 x 46.4cm) Framed: 22 1/16 x 21 x 2 1/2 in. (56 x 53.3 x 6.4 cm)
Classification:: Textiles
Credit Line:: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Accession Number:: 14.40.709a

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: [over bands of inner border, up left, down right side]: PORREXIT MANVM SVAM IN LIBATIONEM/ ET LIBAVIT DE SANGVINE VVE [VUAE] ECCL CI C IP
Provenance

Juana Queen of Spain(before 1555); Calatrava (Military Order) (mid-12th century); Benjamin Altman, New York
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What
Silk (32,922)

Textiles (32,752)

Wool (9,527)

Gilt (9,043)

Linen (7,486)

Tapestries (2,187)
Where
Europe (148,586)

Netherlands (7,362)
When
A.D. 1400-1600 (20,545)
In the Museum
Medieval Art (6,712)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Low Countries, 1400–1600 A.D.
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