MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA052.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Joos van Cleve (c 1485-1540)
Date	15C/4
Reference No	RF2230
Size	29x29
Provenance
Present Location	Paris, Louvre
Bibliography	Paris 1991, 23-7; de Vos 1994b; Dewez & Iterson 1956, 177; Dupeux 1991, 186
	Dijon 1953, 59; Louvre Catalogue 1979, 40; Baldass 1925, 7-8 & 15; Schmitt 1990, 159; Schmitt 1992, 654; Aurenhammer 1959-67, 339
Illustration From	Paris 1991, 38
Other illustrations	Cocheril 1979, ill 295; de Vos 1994b, 399
	Baldass 1925, ill 7
Country	Netherlands

Description:
A late fifteenth-century Lactation painting by Joos van Cleve. Half-figures of the Virgin and a kneeling Bernard are behind a sill on which a naked Child sits on a cushion playing with a string of beads. Bernard has his hands clasped in prayer and holds a very elaborate crozier under his right arm. The Virgin presses her breast with her right hand in a typical Lactation scene. The usual inscription is missing. A landscape with a church is in the background. An open book rests on the sill. Bernard may represent an abbot portrait. There is a Lactation painting by an artist in the circle of Joos van Cleve, see PA072.

Description:

A late fifteenth-century Lactation painting by Joos van Cleve. Half-figures of the Virgin and a kneeling Bernard are behind a sill on which a naked Child sits on a cushion playing with a string of beads. Bernard has his hands clasped in prayer and holds a very elaborate crozier under his right arm. The Virgin presses her breast with her right hand in a typical Lactation scene. The usual inscription is missing. A landscape with a church is in the background. An open book rests on the sill. Bernard may represent an abbot portrait. There is a Lactation painting by an artist in the circle of Joos van Cleve, see PA072.