DETAILS
- Artist
- Adriaen Isenbrant
- Date
- 1522
- Medium
- Oil on wood
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Central panel, overall, with engaged frame, 12 3/8 x 10 1/8 in. (31.4 x 25.7 cm), painted surface 9 1/8 x 6 7/8 in. (23.2 x 17.5 cm); each wing, overall, with engaged frame, 12 3/8 x 5 in. (31.4 x 12.7 cm), painted surface 10 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (27.3 x 8.9 cm)
- Collection
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1913
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THE ARTIST
Adriaen Isenbrant
Adriaen Isenbrant, a prolific Bruges painter, ran a successful workshop specializing in conservative religious and devotional works during the Northern Renaissance.
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