Virgin and Child

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Artist: Joos van Cleve
Date: ca. 1525
Medium: Oil on wood
Dimensions: Overall 28 3/8 x 21 1/4 in. (72.1 x 54 cm); painted surface 27 3/4 x 20 3/4 in. (70.5 x 52.7 cm)
Department: European Paintings
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Sooted Timber · Brown family · #311F17 · 19%

Press Black · Black family · #111115 · 17%

Parchment Ochre · Yellow family · #C0AA8C · 13%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #958263 · 11%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #2E4041 · 9%

Iron Rosette · Red family · #7B1B15 · 6%

Aged Bronze Brown · Brown family · #6F5538 · 6%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #521413 · 5%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #333628 · 5%

Lead Type · Gray family · #708080 · 5%

Press Black · Black family · #161113 · 3%

Marine Tempera · Blue family · #465A65 · 2%

Zinc Ground · Gray family · #A7AB9D · <1%

Lampblack · Black family · #040200 · <1%

Pewter Vessel · Gray family · #78868F · <1%

Zinc Ground · Gray family · #96A5A3 · <1%

Raw Ochre Field · Yellow family · #C89F42 · <1%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #163D51 · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982

10 tags

Madonna and Child Both · 99%

The title is Virgin and Child and the catalog subject includes Madonna and Child; the image shows a mother holding and nursing an infant at the center of the composition.
Landscapes Visual · 99%

A broad rural landscape with cultivated fields, roads, water, settlements, rocky elevations, and distant architecture occupies the background.
Food Both · 98%

Fruit is prominently depicted in the foreground, including grapes and apples; the catalog subjects include Fruit, Apples, and Grapes.

Northern Renaissance Interpretive · 86%

The Netherlandish artist, circa-1525 date, polished devotional panel format, fine surface detail, and integrated landscape are consistent with Northern Renaissance painting.

Highly Detailed Visual · 98%

The painting renders textile folds, flesh, hair, fruit, vegetation, buildings, furniture, and the landscape with exceptionally fine detail.
Dense Composition Visual · 88%

The composition combines overlapping figures, drapery, furniture, an open book, foreground fruit, and an extensive populated landscape.

Oil on Panel Metadata · 99%

The catalog records the medium as oil on wood, corresponding to an oil painting on a wood panel.
Oil Painting Metadata · 99%

The catalog explicitly identifies the medium as oil on wood.

16th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The Metropolitan Museum of Art dates the work to circa 1525, placing it in the sixteenth century.

Joos van Cleve. Virgin and Child. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.