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The panels of this small triptych (a painting made up of three parts) are in their original frames, which are carved from the same boards as the panels. The central panel shows the Virgin Mary seated on an elaborate throne in a sort of loggia (open-sided gallery or room). On the left wing is an unidentified saint wearing a red mitre – he is perhaps a mitred abbot, rather than a bishop – and on the right is Saint Louis (1214–1270), who ruled France as Louis IX. The triptych seems to have been compiled from patterns available in the workshop of Pieter Coecke van Aalst. The Virgin and Christ are a reduced version of a larger Virgin and Child (Kunstmuseum, Basel), and seem to have been reproduced, perhaps by tracing, from a drawing in the Kunsthalle in Hamburg.
Title
The Virgin and Child Enthroned
Date
1527-50
Medium
Oil on wood
Measurements
H 32 x W 48.5 cm
Accession number
NG2606
Acquisition method
Salting Bequest, 1910
Work type
Painting
