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Virgin and Child Enthroned, with Saints Jerome and John the Baptist and a Carthusian Monk
Also titled Tronende Maria en Christus, met Sint-Hiëronymus, Johannes de Doper en een kartuizer monnik
Jan Provoost (Bergen (België), ca. –1529)
c. 1510
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 109.2 cm x width 92.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of the heirs of C. Hoogendijk, The Hague
- 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
A Carthusian monk kneels in adoration before the enthroned Virgin and Child. He is presented to them by John the Baptist, while the Christ Child hands him a rosary. Standing between them is Saint Jerome, who, like John, lived as a hermit in the wilderness. Both saints thus emphasize the Carthusians’ reclusive way of life.
