Mary with Child
around 1530 | Joos van Cleve
Joos van Cleve remained true to the traditional concept of a portrait of the Virgin, but enlivened his painting with details typical of a still life. Sharp contours are softened by gentle light, a manner of painting that seems to have been influenced by earlier painters, especially Leonardo da Vinci and his successors. The Italian painter was the inventor of “sfumato”, “smoky” graduations of shading that result in soft transitions between the colours.
Joos van Cleve remained true to the traditional concept of a portrait of the Virgin, but enlivened his painting with details typical of a still life. Sharp contours are softened by gentle light, a manner of painting that seems to have been influenced by earlier painters, especially Leonardo da Vinci and his successors. The Italian painter was the inventor of “sfumato”, “smoky” graduations of shading that result in soft transitions between the colours.
Artist:
Joos van Cleve (um 1485 Kleve ? - 1540 Antwerpen) DNB
Time:
around 1530
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Netherlandish
Material/technology:
oak wood
Dimensions:
74,3 cm × 56 cm
Framed: 87,4 cm × 70,2 cm × 8 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 836
Provenance
1772 documented in the imperial collection Vienna
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