# Virgin and Child

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## Artwork

- Artist: [SITTOW, Michel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sittow-michel-r8434503f5e2d03>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Oil on panel, 32 x 25 cm

## Commentary

One painter who came as far away as present day Estonia was the unusually adroit technician Michel Sittow. His smoothly painted Virgin and Child is the left half of a diptych, the right panel of which shows the Spanish donor, Don Diego de Guevara \(National Gallery of Art, Washington\). Though many Eyckian elements are still in evidence, the new arts of Italy are also clearly stated, such as the Child, who is very Florentine in character.

## Related artworks

- [Assumption of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sittow-michel-r8434503f5e2d03/assumption-of-the-virgin-r1d74d29551432a>)
- [Coronation of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sittow-michel-r8434503f5e2d03/coronation-of-the-virgin-r1972c6678070c8>)
- [Pietà](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sittow-michel-r8434503f5e2d03/piet-rdf98c0be2a2fac>)
- [Portrait of a Man](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sittow-michel-r8434503f5e2d03/portrait-of-a-man-r2dd17a84c861b9>)
- [Portrait of the Danish King Christian II](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sittow-michel-r8434503f5e2d03/portrait-of-the-danish-king-christian-ii-r126f6c5f6a18dd>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)