Virgin and Child in an Apse

Robert Campin

Date unknown · Oil on canvas, transferred from wood · European Paintings

The Virgin and Child appear in a chapel, flanked by music-making angels. Based on a lost original by Campin of about 1420, this painting is among the earliest and finest of over sixty variants. It attests to the enormous popularity of this devotional prototype and to the burgeoning cult of the Virgin in the Burgundian Netherlands. The Virgin’s downcast gaze and the Christ Child reaching up to nurse are motifs that inspired later Netherlandish painters.

Artist: Robert Campin
Date: Date unknown
Medium: Oil on canvas, transferred from wood
Department: European Paintings
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1905

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