BROEDERLAM, Melchior
(active 1381-1409)

The Presentation of Christ

1393-99
Tempera on wood
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon

The picture shows a detail of the right wing of the Dijon Altarpiece.

The Holy Family, St Simeon and a servant girl, who carries a candle in her right hand and a basket with two doves in her left, all gather round the Christ Child.