Virgin and Child in an Interior

A false Durer monogram is crudely scratched on to the reverse of the panel. The Virgin and Child are seated in a richly appointed interior, appropriate to their divine status: the bench is hung with cloth of gold and the floor inset with precious stones. But they are also mother and child: the brass basin by the fire is for bathing the Child; clean nappies and swaddling clothes are in the basket lower right. The frame is original, and is carved in one piece with the panel on which the picture is painted. Jacques Daret was a member of Campin's workshop, whose figures are very similar in style t... Mehr ...