MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA108.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Jean Bellegambe (active 1504-34)
Date	16C/1
Reference No	Inv No GE-5574
Size	103x33 (each wing)
Provenance
Present Location	St Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum
Bibliography	Nikulin 1989, 32-5
	Genaille 1969, 5-16
Illustration From	Genaille 1969, ill 2
Other illustrations	Nikulin 1989, 34

Country	Belgium

Description:
The reverse of the wings of a triptych of the Annunciation with Saints painted c 1516 by Jean Bellegambe (see PA108) which has a Lactation picture in grisaille in the same way as the Cellier Retable also by Bellegambe (see PA088) but with the figures reversed, here with the kneeling figure of Bernard on the right and the sitting Virgin and Child on the left, and with the customary banderole with the words 'Monstra te esse matrem' which is missing from the Cellier Retable.

Description:

The reverse of the wings of a triptych of the Annunciation with Saints painted c 1516 by Jean Bellegambe (see PA108) which has a Lactation picture in grisaille in the same way as the Cellier Retable also by Bellegambe (see PA088) but with the figures reversed, here with the kneeling figure of Bernard on the right and the sitting Virgin and Child on the left, and with the customary banderole with the words 'Monstra te esse matrem' which is missing from the Cellier Retable.