Adoration of the Christ Child

Datec. 1480

Object PlaceFlanders, Netherlands, Western Europe, Europe

MediumOil on oak panel

ClassificationsPaintings

Dimensions12 × 14 inches (30.48 × 35.56 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Wilkinson

Object number54.1

DescriptionWithin an architectural setting with a column with crumbling base and lintel, the Madonna, bending over the small figure of the infant Christ who is lying on the edge of her robe on the ground. Joseph, kneeling at the left, raises his right hand in benediction. Three small angels, hands clasped, kneel behind the Child. At far right. the heads of an ox and an ass. Landscape with trees, left background.

On View

On view

Locations

Exhibition Demo Museum (Hanover Square), Level 3, European Paintings, Gallery 3

ProvenanceParis, Galerie Sedelmeyer, (dealer) 1897; Detroit, Collection James E. Scripps, 1897; by descent to Mrs. Harriet W. Wilkinson (Mrs. A. D. Wilkinson, Detroit (granddaughter of James Scripps), by whom given to the DIA in 1954.