Virgin and Child with Angels, Bernard van Orley, ca. 1518

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Virgin and Child with Angels, ca. 1518, Oil on wood, 33 5/8 x 27 1/2 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Bernard van Orley (Netherlandish, Brussels ca. 1492–1541/42 Brussels), Van Orley probably painted this refined and intimate picture of the Virgin and Child about the time of his appointment in 1518 as official painter to Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands. A courtly Madonna of Humility, the Virgin wears a luxurious fur-trimmed dress and is seated on the ground in the enclosed but spacious garden of her palace

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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