# Virgin and Child [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GOSSART, Jan]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on oak panel, 63 x 50 cm ## Commentary This painting joins a series of late Virgin and Child paintings in which Gossart explored the physical nature of the bond between the two figures. In this series he searched for solutions to the physical relationship of figures, just as he had done with his drawings and paintings of Adam and Eve. Taking inspiration from Italian examples he had observed on his trip to Rome in 1508-09, Gossart exaggerated the poses of figures to suit his increasingly mannered mode of presentation. Among the sources of inspiration a number of the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/r/robbia/luca/madonna/02madon.html'\)" href="/html/r/robbia/luca/madonna/02madon.html">Della Robbia terracottas</a> display a pose of the Virgin and Child similar to that of Gossart's painting. This painting belonged to King Philip II, who gave it to the Monastery of El Escorial in 1572. ## Related artworks - [A Grotesque with Two Sirens]() - [A Man Holding a Glove]() - [A Reliquary]() - [A Women's Bath]() - [Adam Accuses Eve before God]() - [Adam and Eve \(detail\)]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Agony in the Garden \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()