A nude man stands in a sandstone-colored, hip-high basin with hands together in prayer, as ten people stand around the basin and more look on from a distance in this vertical painting. The man, Clovis, stands with his body facing us but his head tilts slightly to his left, our right. He wears a jeweled crown over his chin-length brown hair, and looks off to our right with dark eyes under dark brows. The basin sits on an ornately carved gray stone plinth. Next to the basin to our right, a man wears a cardinal-red tunic over a long-sleeved, white garment and tips a golden bowl of liquid to…
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The Baptism of Clovis

painter Master of Saint Giles (Franco-Flemish, active c. 1500)

c. 1500

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 61.5 x 45.5 cm (24 3/16 x 17 15/16 in.) ; overall (panel): 63.3 x 46.7 cm (24 15/16 x 18 3/8 in.) ; framed: 82.07 × 66.36 × 9.21 cm (32 5/16 × 26 1/8 × 3 5/8 in.)
Culture
Franco-Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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