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Virgin and Child in an Apse

Copy after Robert Campin Netherlandish
Not on view
The Virgin and Child appear in a chapel, flanked by music-making angels. Based on a lost original by Campin of about 1420, this painting is among the earliest and finest of over sixty variants. It attests to the enormous popularity of this devotional prototype and to the burgeoning cult of the Virgin in the Burgundian Netherlands. The Virgin’s downcast gaze and the Christ Child reaching up to nurse are motifs that inspired later Netherlandish painters.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Virgin and Child in an Apse
  • Artist: Copy after Robert Campin (Netherlandish, ca. 1480)
  • Medium: Oil on canvas, transferred from wood
  • Dimensions: 17 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. (45.1 x 34.3 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1905
  • Object Number: 05.39.2
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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