MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA088.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Jean Bellegambe (active 1504-34)
Date	16C/1
Reference No	Inv. 32.100.102
Size	each wing 95.9x25.4
Provenance	Clairvaux
Present Location	New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Michael Friedsam Collection
Bibliography	Ainsworth & Christiansen 1999, 332-4; Sterling 1955, 18-20; Dewez & Iterson 1956, 177; Chauvin 2001, 103
	Genaille 1952, 99-108; Heller 1976, 175; Friedlaender 1967-76, 12:101; Dupeux 1993, 161; Pearson 2001, 1358-62
Illustration From	photo - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Other illustrations	Ainsworth & Christiansen 1999, 334; Kirschbaum & Braunfels 1968-76, 5:378; Pearson 2001, ill 3; Friedlaender 1967-76, 12:ill 119

Country	France

Description:
The outside wings of the Retable of le Cellier painted in c 1509 by Jean Bellegambe and commissioned by Abbess Jeanne de Boubais (see PA087 for the inside). As was quite common at the time, the outside wings were painted in grisaille. On the left Bernard, holding his crozier with sudarium attached with both hands which are clasped in prayer, kneels before the seated Virgin holding the naked Child with her left hand while her right hand is on her bared breast. Bernard has 'tuft'.

Description:

The outside wings of the Retable of le Cellier painted in c 1509 by Jean Bellegambe and commissioned by Abbess Jeanne de Boubais (see PA087 for the inside). As was quite common at the time, the outside wings were painted in grisaille. On the left Bernard, holding his crozier with sudarium attached with both hands which are clasped in prayer, kneels before the seated Virgin holding the naked Child with her left hand while her right hand is on her bared breast. Bernard has 'tuft'.