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The Virgin and Child with an Angel Making Music
Also titled Maria met kind en musicerende engel
Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (Beverwijk, ca. –ca.)
1545
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 251 mm x width 343 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Vermeyen had a highly individual sense of imagination. His angel is no elevated, genderless celestial being, but a woman of flesh and blood, who has donned her finest gown. She is fitted out with sizeable swan wings. The infant Jesus is a brawny, lively, little fellow showing no intention of falling asleep to the song that the angel is strumming for him.
