File:Clevelandart 1942.632.jpg

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Portrait of a Monk  wikidata:Q60514771 reasonator:Q60514771
Artist
Gerard David
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Title
Portrait of a Monk
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
This panel originally formed the right half of a diptych, a hinged two-paneled painting used for private worship. The missing left panel probably depicted the Virgin and Child. The entire composition showed the monk, with his prayer book open, kneeling in an interior before Mary and the infant Jesus. This panel is very similar to another painting of a monk now in the National Gallery (London) by Gerard David. Although we do not know the monk's name, he must have lived in the Netherlandish city of Bruges, because behind him appear two of that city's most famous towers: on the left is that of the Onze Lieve Vrouw (Our Dear Lady) Church; the Cathedral of the Saviour is on the right. Also, his simple gray garment and tonsure indicate that he likely belonged to an Augustinian religious community.
Date 1500
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q287,P518,Q861259
Dimensions Framed: 54.5 x 48.5 x 5.5 cm (21 7/16 x 19 1/8 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 36 x 30.4 cm (14 3/16 x 11 15/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Medieval Art
Accession number
1942.632
Place of creation Flanders, Bruges, early 16th Century
Credit line Bequest of John L. Severance
References
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.632

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