Gerard David, 1490 - Virgin and Child - fine art print

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In 1490 Gerard David created the northern renaissance masterpiece Virgin and Child. The artwork measures the size: Overall: 6 1/8 x 4 1/2 in (15,6 x 11,4 cm); Painted Surface: 5 3/4 x 4 1/8 in (14,6 x 10,5 cm). Oil on oak panel was used by the European artist as the medium of the work of art. It is included in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital art collection - the museum is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. We are pleased to state that this public domain piece of art is provided with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. Furthermore, the artwork has the creditline: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. Besides, the alignment is in portrait format with a side ratio of 3 : 4, which implies that the length is 25% shorter than the width. The artist, illuminator, painter, drawer, miniaturist Gerard David was a European artist from the Netherlands, whose style can primarily 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.

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In the product dropdown menu you can pick your individual size and material. The following options are available for individualization:

• Poster print (canvas material): The poster print is a UV printed flat canvas paper with a slightly rough surface texture, which reminds the actual artwork. Please note, that depending on the absolute size of the poster print we add a white margin 2 - 6cm around the painting in order to facilitate the framing with a custom frame.
• Canvas: A printed canvas material applied on a wood frame. A canvas print of this artpiece will let you turn your own art print into a large size artwork. Canvas prints are relatively low in weight. That means, it is quite simple to hang your Canvas print without extra wall-mounts. That is why, canvas prints are suited for any kind of wall.
• Aluminium dibond: This is a metal print manufactured on alu dibond with a true depth effect. A non-reflective surface make a contemporary impression. For the Aluminium Dibond print, we print the chosen artpiece onto the surface of the white-primed aluminum composite. The colors are vivid and luminous, the details of the print are very clear.
• Print on acrylic glass: An print on acrylic glass, often named a an art print on plexiglass, makes the original into décor. Your artwork will be made with modern UV print machines. This makes impressive, intense colors. Our acrylic glass protects your selected art replica against light and external influences for many more years.

Important information: We try what we can in order to describe the art products as closely as we can and to exhibit them visually in our shop. However, the tone of the print products and the print result can vary to a certain extent from the image on your device's monitor. Depending on the settings of your screen and the quality of the surface, color pigments can unfortunately not be printed as exactly as the digital version depicted here. In view of the fact that the are printed and processed by hand, there may also be slight variations in the size and exact position of the motif.

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Work of art background information

The painter

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The infant Christ embraces his mother as the pair touch cheeks in an intimate expression of familial love. This panel may have been part of a devotional diptych, perhaps paired with an image of a donor figure or Christ Taking Leave of His Mother. Such a small picture would be easily transportable for devotional practice during travel. The painting was likely produced in the workshop of the Bruges-based artist Gerard David (ca. 1455-1523). In the early sixteenth century David tailored his creative output to meet the growing demands of the open market, creating series of images in a streamlined fashion with the participation of assistants and apprentices. It is in this context that the Virgin and Child belongs.