Gerard David, 1510 - Virgin and Child with Four Angels - fine art print

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Gerard David, the leading painter in Bruges in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, followed the legacy of Jan van Eyck. In this painting he has taken the Virgin and Child from his predecessor’s well-known Virgin and Child at the Fountain, but modernized the composition by placing the figures in a grand arched porch flanked by columns with Italianate capitals and against the backdrop of contemporary Bruges. A Carthusian monk is seen strolling and reading in the enclosed garden, suggesting that the painting was linked to the former monastery at Genadedael, just outside the city walls of Bruges.

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The more than 510 years old piece of art was painted by the northern renaissance painter Gerard David. The beyond 510 years old original version had the following size: 24 7/8 x 15 3/8 in (63,2 x 39,1 cm) and was painted on the medium oil on wood. It is part of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1977 (public domain license). Also, the work of art has the creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1977. What is more, the alignment is portrait with a side ratio of 2 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% shorter than the width. The artist, illuminator, painter, drawer, miniaturist Gerard David was a European artist from the Netherlands, whose style can be classified as Northern Renaissance. The Dutch painter was born in the year 1460 in Oudewater, Utrecht province, Netherlands and died at the age of 63 in the year 1523 in Bruges, West-Vlaanderen, Flanders, Belgium.

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