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The most popular devotional image by Joos van Cleve and his studio is a half-length composition of the Virgin presenting the Christ Child to the beholder on a stone parapet. In this example the Virgin-and-Child group is expanded into a Holy Family with the foster father Joseph. The Christ Child stands upright on the stone parapet, lovingly embraced by the Virgin. To deepen the mother-child relationship, the painter has retained the well-known "Maria lactans" motif, interpreted here in a playful fashion.
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