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Virgin and Child

painting by Workshop of Hans Memling
VisualArtwork painting Q19904832
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Summary

Virgin and Child is a painting[1]. It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Key Facts

  • Religion or worldview: Christianity[3]
  • Maintained by: European Paintings[4]
  • Owned by: Jules Bache[5]
  • Movement: Early Netherlandish painting[6]
  • Genre: religious art[7]
  • Depicts: Jesus Christ[8], Mary[9], apple[10], Madonna and Child[11], Christ Child[12]
  • Made from material: oil paint[13], wood[14], panel[15]
  • Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art[16], Dr. Carvalho[17]
  • Inventory number: 49.7.22[18]
  • Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art[19]
  • Commons category: Virgin and Child by follower of Hans Memling (MET 49.7.22)[20]
  • Country of origin: Belgium[21]
  • Catalog code: 67[22], 53[23], 3[24]
  • Inception: 1490[25]
  • Exhibition history: Kunsthistorische Ausstellung[26], Exhibition of Belgian Medieval Art[27], Masterpieces of Art: European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300–1800[28], Flemish Primitives: An Exhibition Organized by the Belgian Government Through the Belgian Information Center, New York[29], The Bache Collection[30], Gerard David: Flanders's Last Medieval Master[31], Hans Memling: Five Centuries of Fact and Fiction[32], From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art[33]
  • Main subject: Madonna and Child[34]
  • Depicts Iconclass notation: 11F4[35]
  • Described by source: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History[36]
  • Published in: European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue[37], From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art[38]
  • Title: Virgin and Child[39]
  • Height: 27.3 cm[40], 22.9 cm[41]
  • Width: 21 cm[42], 16.8 cm[43]
  • Copyright status: public domain[44]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . Metropolitan Museum of Art. wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . BALaT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . RKDimages. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . RKDimages. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . kikirpa.be. Retrieved . kikirpa.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . archive.org. archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . RKDimages. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 18w ago · MsynBot bot · 2026-06-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country of origin → Belgium
    Depicts iconclass notation → 11F4
    Depicts → Jesus Christ, Mary, apple +2
    Inventory number → 49.7.22
    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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