Christ Taking Leave of His Mother, ca. 1500, Oil on wood, Arched top, 6 1/8 x 4 3/4 in. (15.6 x 12.1 cm), Paintings, Gerard David (Netherlandish, Oudewater ca. 1455–1523 Bruges), David also worked as a manuscript illuminator, a skill reflected in this picture’s delicacy of execution. The panel—now in a modern frame—originally formed the right wing of a devotional diptych that would close like a book and thus could easily be used by a traveler during a journey
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Christ Taking Leave, Mother, ca, 1500, Oil, wood, Arched top, 6 1/8 x 4 3/4, 15.6 12.1 cm, Paintings, Gerard David, Netherlandish, Oudewater ca., 1455–1523, Bruges, David, worked, manuscript illuminator, skill reflected, picture, delicacy, execution, panel—now, modern frame—originally formed, right wing, devotional diptych, close, book, thus, easily, traveler, journey
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