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    • Virgin and Child, last quarter of 15th century
    Master of the Legend of Saint Ursula (Netherlandish, active late 15th century)
    Oil on wood; 22 1/8 x 13 1/2 in. (56.2 X 34.3 cm)
    Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.16)

    This panel by a Bruges painter is unique is representing the figures not with a domestic interior but as living icons before a golden trompe-l'oeil niche. It may represent a cult image associated with the Church of Saint Donatian in Bruges, which housed relics of the Virgin's hair and milk.

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  • Weitzmann, Kurt "The Late Roman World." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 35, no. 2 (Autumn, 1977).
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  • Grube, Ernst J., et al. "Art Treasures of Turkey." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 26, no. 5 (January, 1968).
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    • "Byzantium" PDF
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  • Brown, Katharine Reynolds "Documents in Gold." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 28, no. 6 (February, 1970).
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  • Hayward, Jane "Sacred Vestments As They Developed in the Middle Ages." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 29, no. 7 (March, 1971).
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  • Gómez-Moreno, Carmen,and Thomas Hoving "Gold." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 31, no. 2 (Winter, 1972–73).
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  • Parker, James, Alice M. Zrebiec, Jessie McNab, Clare Le Corbeiller, and Clare Vincent "French Decorative Arts during the Reign of Louis XIV 1654–1715." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 46, no. 4 (Spring, 1989).
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    • "Director" PDF
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  • Evans, Helen C., Melanie Holcomb, and Robert Hallman "The Arts of Byzantium." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 58, no. 4 (Spring, 2001).
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  • Cassidy-Geiger, Maureen "Meissen Porcelain for Sophie Dorotea of Prussia and the Exchange of Visits between the Kings of Poland and Prussia in 1728." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 37 (2002).
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  • Vincent, Clare "Some Seventeenth-Century French Painted Enamel Watchcases." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 37 (2002).
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  • Stone, Elizabeth Rosen "An Early Image of Maitreya as a Brahman Ascetic?" Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 42 (2007).
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  • Strouse, Jean "J. Pierpont Morgan: Financier and Collector." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 57, no. 3 (Winter, 1999–2000).
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    • Virgin and Child, last quarter of 15th century
    Master of the Legend of Saint Ursula (Netherlandish, active late 15th century)
    Oil on wood; 22 1/8 x 13 1/2 in. (56.2 X 34.3 cm)
    Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.16)

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