# The Virgin and Child with an Angel Making Music

- By: Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (Beverwijk, ca. –ca.)
- Date: 1545
- Medium: paper
- Classification: print
- Dimensions: height 251 mm x width 343 mm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-P-1891-A-16537--1c901d1832cf7f1c07099744e52c0d13)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/36e119156bb269703ce495a25aa4fe62.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.