# Virgin and Child [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GOSSART, Jan]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on oak panel, 34 x 25 cm ## Commentary This small painting is unique in Gossart's oeuvre for its portrayal of the Virgin and Child in a palace interior. it is accepted as the original of a composition that exists in at least three other versions. The painter featured his favourite pigment, ultramarine, in an exaggerated, complex system of folds for the Virgin's drapery, which extends over nearly a third of the composition. The Child's muscular, expressive body, familiar from other late paintings, must have derived from Italian sources. Although the exact source cannot be identified, he may well have been looking at Italian Renaissance plaquettes, such as <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/moderno/hercules.html'\)" href="/html/m/moderno/hercules.html">The Infant Hercules Strangling Two Serpents</a> by Moderno. ## 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]()