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Saint Luke painting the Virgin and Child
Quentin Matsysabout 1520?
The National Gallery, London
London, United Kingdom
This work and The Virgin standing in a Niche are the outer and inner faces of the right shutter of an altarpiece. No other elements of this altarpiece are known but the central panel probably showed The Virgin and Child enthroned, as in Saint Luke's picture. The lost left outer face probably showed a donor with a saint.
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- Title: Saint Luke painting the Virgin and Child
- Creator: Workshop of Quinten Massys
- Date Created: about 1520?
- Physical Dimensions: 114.9 × 35.4 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on oak
- School: Netherlandish
- More Info: Explore the National Gallery’s paintings online
- Inventory number: NG3902
- Artist Dates: 1465/6 - 1530
- Artist Biography: Massys was the leading painter in Antwerp in the early 16th century. He was born in Louvain and his earliest works show the influence of Memling, who had been active in Bruges. His later works show some Italian influence, particularly that of Leonardo. He was notable as a portraitist as well as a religious painter. Massys is first recorded in Antwerp, on becoming a member of the guild there in 1491, when the town was beginning to assume importance as the main port of the Netherlands. There are dated and datable paintings by Massys from 1509 onwards, the year of the completion of his altarpiece of the 'Legend of Saint Anna' (now in the Brussels Museum). In Antwerp, Massys was closely associated with Joachim Patinir, and seems to have supplied figures for his landscapes.
- Acquisition Credit: Presented by Henry Wagner, 1924
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