The Holy Family with the Infant Christ Pressing the Wine of the Eucharist
1485/1525
- Medium
- Linen, wool, silk, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk; slit tapestry weave Warp: Count: 10 warps per cm; linen: S-ply of two Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.4–0.5 mm. Weft: Count: varies from 28 to 64 wefts per cm; wool: single Z-spun…
- Classification
- Coverings and Hangings
- Dimensions
- 75.6 × 68.2 cm (29 3/4 × 26 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- Belgium
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
With its focus on the infant Christ squeezing grapes to make the Eucharistic wine, this small tapestry probably decorated a private oratory. The outer border of flowers and fruit is a later addition and is less finely woven than the holy figures and the inner border of a single pansy and rosebud.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
