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    • Christ Appearing to His Mother, ca. 1496
    Juan de Flandes (Netherlandish, active [in Spain] by 1496, died 1519)
    Oil on wood

    25 x 15 in. (63.5 x 38.1 cm), painted surface 24 1/2 x 14 5/8 in. (62.2 x 37.1 cm)
    Bequest of Michael Dreicer, 1921 (22.60.58)

    Workshops routinely produced copies of paintings that were prized for their spiritual powers or for the status of their authorship and/or ownership. Such factors prompted Queen Isabella of Castile to order a copy of Rogier van der Weyden's Mary Altarpiece (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin), which was given by her father, King Juan II, to the Carthusian monastery of Miraflores, near Burgos, Spain, in 1445. This picture is the right panel of Isabella's triptych and can be attributed to her court artist Juan de Flandes on the basis of documentary and technical evidence. The center and left panels remain at Isabella's burial site, the Capilla Real, Granada, where she bequeathed the triptych upon her death in 1504.

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  • Ainsworth, Maryan W. "Implications of Revised Attributions in Netherlandish Painting." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 27 (1992).
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  • Eisler, Colin T. "Juan de Flandes's Saint Michael and Saint Francis." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 18, no. 4 (December, 1959)
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  • Christ Appearing to His Mother, ca. 1496
    Juan de Flandes (Netherlandish, active [in Spain] by 1496, died 1519)
    Oil on wood

    25 x 15 in. (63.5 x 38.1 cm), painted surface 24 1/2 x 14 5/8 in. (62.2 x 37.1 cm)
    Bequest of Michael Dreicer, 1921 (22.60.58)

  • Detail of Christ.
  • Detail of Christ, Infrared reflectogram.