DETAILS
- Artist
- Adriaen Isenbrant
- Date
- 1515
- Medium
- Oil on wood
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 20 x 12 in. (50.8 x 30.5 cm), with added strips of 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm) at left and right
- Collection
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931
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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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