Virgin and Child under a Canopy (1520s): Art, History and Details

Virgin and Child under a Canopy (1520s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Scholars continue to debate the identity of this artist and the original source of the painting. The small coat of arms and initials at the bottom have not yet been identified. The arms may refer to a family, a city, or a bishopric. The style seems to relate to Bruges painting of the early 1500s, however the slightly mannered treatment of the child may point to Antwerp.

Object facts

• Title: Virgin and Child under a Canopy
• Date: 1520s
• Culture: South Netherlands, 16th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on wood panel
• Dimensions: Framed: 77.5 x 53.5 x 7 cm (30 1/2 x 21 1/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 64.8 x 40 cm (25 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.)
• Collection: MED - Renaissance
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1946.282

Collection credit

In memory of Ralph King, gift of Mrs. Ralph King; Ralph T. King, Woods King, Charles G. King; and Frances King Schafer

Further reading listed by the museum

• Francis, Henry. "Paintings." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 2 (February 1947): 24. Published as a work by Cornelis Van Coninxloo
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.

View the collection record

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