# Virgin and Child [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GOSSART, Jan]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on oak panel, 53 x 40 cm ## Commentary Monumental in form and exquisitely refined in its rendering of textural details, this Virgin and Child is one of Gossart's finest mature work. The panel may have been the left wing of a devotional diptych. There are no clues as to the original right half. The complete work would have appeared somewhat similar to the Carondelet Diptych. The image of the Virgin and Child surrounded by the brilliance of the sun's rays was linked to a specific devotion popular in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century in the Low Countries. ## 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]()