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The Virgin and Child with an Angel Making Music
Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (1504-1559), etching, 1545
Vermeyen had a highly individual sense of imagination. His angel is no elevated, genderless celestial being, but a woman of flesh and blood, who has donned her finest gown. She is fitted out with sizeable swan wings. The infant Jesus is a brawny, lively, little fellow showing no intention of falling asleep to the song that the angel is strumming for him.
- Artwork typeprint
- Object numberRP-P-1891-A-16537
- Dimensionsheight 251 mm x width 343 mm