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| Keywords: German - Virgin and Child in a Landscape - Walters 37383.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Anonymous German <br/> Like Van Dyck's Virgin and Child Walters 37 234 this idyll of Mary steadying the infant Jesus is centered on the naked child Representing Christ explicitly as a boy not sexless underlined his miraculously dual nature fully human and fully god While depicting the adult Christ naked would cause scandal a naked baby is natural A watercolor by the German master Albrecht Dürer 1471-1528 was the source for the composition but the style is from around 1600 The drawing was then owned by Emperor Rudolf II in Prague who commissioned copies from court artists Painting on copper creates an enamel-like surface that satisfied collector's taste for refinement ca 1600 Baroque oil on copper cm 26 7 19 9 accession number 37 383 19250 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Prague Czech Republic Walters Art Museum license 2D Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Madonnas by Albrecht Dürer Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Paintings of Madonna and Child Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review | ||||
