Virgin and Child in a Landscape (1531): Art, History and Details

Virgin and Child in a Landscape (1531) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jan Gossaert (Flemish, c. 1475/78–1532); Anonymous Landscape Painter (Flemish).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Among the first northern European artists to study in Rome, Gossaert returned north to serve in various German and Flemish courts, incorporating Italian Renaissance ideas. Gossaert also painted the frame, including the Latin inscription: "Mother, may your contemplation be our reconciliation." The patron is likely Mencía de Mendoza, a Spanish noblewoman, one of the most important art collectors and intellectuals of the early 1500s.

Object facts

• Title: Virgin and Child in a Landscape
• Date: 1531
• Creator attribution: Jan Gossaert (Flemish, c. 1475/78–1532); Anonymous Landscape Painter (Flemish)
• Culture: Flanders
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on wood
• Dimensions: Framed: 68 x 56 x 4.5 cm (26 3/4 x 22 1/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 47.7 x 36.6 cm (18 3/4 x 14 7/16 in.)
• Collection: P - Netherlandish-Flemish
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1972.47

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Gibson, Walter S. “Jan Gossart de Mabuse: Madonna and Child in a Landscape.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 9 (November 1974): 287–299.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.

View the collection record

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