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Virgin and Child
Also titled Maria met kind
Lucas van Leyden (Leiden, ca. –1533)
c. 1530
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 34.5 cm x width 27.5 cm
- 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
Towards the end of his career Lucas painted a few pictures of the Virgin and Child, including this one. The placement of the mother and child close to the picture plane lends the scene intimacy, which is further heightened by her tender caress. To create a personal bond with the viewer, Mary and Jesus gaze at us with striking directness.
