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Virgin and Child, ca. 1525
Jan Gossaert (called Mabuse) (Netherlandish, ca. 1478–1532)
Oil on wood; Overall 17 7/8 x 13 5/8 in. (45.4 x 34.6 cm); painted surface 17 1/4 x 13 in. (43.8 x 33 cm)
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.17)

This is the preeminent version of a dozen or so paintings of this popular composition by Gossart. It has been associated with a work the artist made while serving Adolf of Burgundy, marquis de Veere. According to Karel van Mander in his Schilderboeck (1604), the faces of Mary and the infant Christ were modeled after Adolf's wife, Anna van Bergen, and the couple's son. The picture is therefore, both a devotional object and a disguised portrait.

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    Virgin and Child, ca. 1525
    Jan Gossaert (called Mabuse) (Netherlandish, ca. 1478–1532)
    Oil on wood; Overall 17 7/8 x 13 5/8 in. (45.4 x 34.6 cm); painted surface 17 1/4 x 13 in. (43.8 x 33 cm)
    Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.17)