Christ Taking Leave of His Mother

Gerard David Netherlandish

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Before leaving for Jerusalem to be crucified, Jesus says farewell to his mother—an ideal subject for meditation that would have been paired with the Virgin and Child to form a folding work that could be carried on a journey. Gerard David was also an illuminator of books, which explains this picture’s delicacy of execution. The frame is modern.

Christ Taking Leave of His Mother, Gerard David (Netherlandish, Oudewater ca. 1455–1523 Bruges), Oil on wood

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