Depictions of the Virgin
by Jan GOSSART

Gossart painted many versions of the Virgin and Child. The image of the Virgin and Child surrounded by the brilliance of the sun's rays was linked to a specific devotion popular in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in the Low Countries. While the skilful presentation of the tactile qualities of flesh and fabrics had been previously mastered in Netherlandish painting, the utterly human relationship between the Virgin and Child is entirely new. The has filtered into Gossart's work from Italian Renaissance sculpted and painted examples.

Preview Picture Data Info
Virgin and Child with Musical Angels
c. 1510
Oil on oak panel, 36 x 28
Private collection


The Holy Family
c. 1510
Oil on oak panel, 46 x 34 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles


Virgin and Child with the Veil
c. 1520
Oil on oak panel, 25 x 20 cm
Mauritshuis, The Hague


Virgin and Child
c. 1520
Oil on oak panel, 39 x 27 cm
National Gallery, London


Virgin and Child
c. 1520
Oil on oak panel, 39 x 27 cm
National Gallery, London


Virgin and Child
c. 1522
Oil on oak panel, 39 x 30 cm
Landesmuseum, Münster


Virgin and Child
c. 1525
Oil on oak panel, 53 x 40 cm
Art Institute, Chicago


Virgin and Child
1527
Oil on oak panel, 31 x 24 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna


Virgin and Child (detail)
1527
Oil on oak panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna


Virgin and Child
1527
Oil on oak panel, 31 s 24 cm
National Gallery, London


Virgin and Child
1527
Oil on oak panel, 31 x 25 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich


Virgin and Child
c. 1527
Oil on oak panel, 63 x 50 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid


Virgin and Child
1525-30
Oil on oak panel, 48 x 38 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin


Virgin and Child (detail)
1525-30
Oil on oak panel
Staatliche Museen, Berlin


The Holy Family
1525-30
Oil on oak panel, 56 x 42 cm
Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao


The Holy Family (detail)
1525-30
Oil on oak panel
Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao


Virgin and Child
c. 1530
Oil on oak panel, 45 x 34 cm
Private collection


Virgin and Child in a Landscape
1531
Oil on oak panel, 50 x 38 cm (without frame)
Museum of Art, Cleveland


Virgin and Child
1532
Oil on oak panel, 34 x 25 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington



Summary of works by Jan Gossart
Paintings
Altarpieces | Depictions of the Virgin
St Luke Drawing the Virgin | Other religious subjects
Mythological subjects | Portraits
Graphics
Religious drawings | Drawings of antique art
Ornamental drawings | Prints



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